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"Anne"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Buffy working in a diner in Los Angeles as Anne

Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 1
Directed by
Joss Whedon
Written by
Joss Whedon
Featured music
"Back to Freedom" by Bellylove
"Deliverance" by Christophe Beck

Production code
3ABB01
Original air date
September 29, 1998
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Julia Lee as Lily
Carlos Jacott as Ken
Mary-Pat Green as Blood Bank Doctor
Chad Todhunter as Rickie
Larry Bagby as Larry Blaisdell
James Lurie as Mr. Miller
Michael Leopard as Roughneck
Harley Zumbrum as Demon Guard
Barbara Pilavin as Old Woman
Harrison Young as Old Man
Alex Toma as Aaron
Dell Yount as Truck Guy

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 "Becoming" Next →
 "Dead Man's Party"

List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes
"Anne" is the third season premiere of the WB Television Network's of the drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The 35th episode of the show, it was first broadcast September 29, 1998. The episode was written and directed by Executive Producer/Showrunner and series creator Joss Whedon. The episode takes place a few months after Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) killed her lover Angel (David Boreanaz) and left Sunnydale; she has moved to Los Angeles and is living under her middle name, Anne.
Plot[edit]
Back in Sunnydale, lacking a Slayer, the Scooby gang tries to take her place, while Rupert Giles follows every lead to her whereabouts. Under her middle name, "Anne", Buffy is working as a diner waitress in L.A. She serves Lily and Rickie, a young couple living on the streets, who have just gotten a complementary set of distinctive tattoos. Later that evening Lily approaches Buffy on the street and reveals that she remembers Buffy from when Buffy saved her from a cult of vampire-worshippers, back when she was known as "Chanterelle"--she changes her name and group identification a lot, so understands Buffy's desire to change her name, get lost, and stay away from anyone who cares about her. As they talk, a man wanders into the street, muttering "I'm no one," and is nearly hit by a car, only saved by Buffy's quick rescue. Buffy refuses Lily's invitation out and says she just wants to be left alone. She runs into a man named Ken, who comments on her "lost" state and offers to befriend her. Buffy leaves him there.
The next day Lily comes to the diner and tells Buffy that Rickie has disappeared. Buffy reluctantly agrees to help find him. In her search, she finds the body of an elderly homeless man with Rickie's tattoo. Buffy reports her findings to Lily, who doesn't believe that the body could be Rickie's; she accuses Buffy of being the cause of their troubles and berates her. She runs away and on the street meets Ken, who claims to know Rickie and affirms that Buffy is a liar. He tells her Rickie is back at the "Family Home" waiting for Lily, so she eagerly goes with him. Buffy interrogates a blood bank worker who has been acting suspiciously, and learns that the woman has been giving Ken names of healthy homeless who come in to donate blood.
Meanwhile, Ken has prepared Lily for a "cleansing," which entails stepping into a bath in the floor, after which she will be reborn into a new life. Lily hesitates, as the "bath" looks like black oil. At the Family Home door, Buffy attempts to pass herself off as a "sinner" wanting a new chance, but ends up kicking her way into the building in time to see Lily fall into the pool. Buffy and Ken wrestle and they both fall in, coming out below into a huge factory. Ken's human mask falls off, revealing him to be a demon. Buffy and Lily are now amongst many other slave laborers of varying ages. Ken tells Buffy and Lily that they're in a hell dimension where time passes very quickly: a hundred years there equals only one day in Los Angeles. Since he only picks people who no one will miss, they will have worked themselves to a used-up death of old age without anyone noticing their absence. He tells Lily that Rickie remembered Lily, even after he'd forgotten his own name. But he eventually forgot her. Lily is resigned to ending up in hell, and she accepts her fate passively.
Ken lines the captives up and each one is asked, "Who are you?" and then bludgeoned unless they answer "I'm no one." Buffy realizes this is where the muttering old people on the street have come from. When it's her turn to be asked who she is, she says her name with pride and kicks the demon who asked. She rouses the rest of the captives to fight back and a battle ensues. She's finally stopped as Ken holds Lily at knifepoint. He then delivers a speech about how they're all stuck and will die there, until Lily, who has been passive until now, pushes Ken off a ledge onto the concrete floor. Lily then leads the captives back up through the "pool" as Buffy dispatches Ken, and once all of the humans are out of the demonic dimension, the pool gateway between the dimensions closes.
Back in her apartment, Buffy has packed her bag, ready to stop running away from her problems, reclaim her life, and face the people who care about her. She gives Lily her "Anne" identity – apartment, job, and nametag, as Anne vows to start taking better care of herself. (Lily will later appear as Anne in Angel.)
The episode ends with Buffy appearing at the door of her home and being embraced by her relieved mother.
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Dead Man's Party (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Dead Man's Party"
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Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 2
Directed by
James Whitmore, Jr.
Written by
Marti Noxon
Production code
3ABB02
Original air date
October 6, 1998
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Nancy Lenehan as Pat
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
Jason Hall as Devon MacLeish
Paul Morgan Stetler as Young Doctor
Chris Garnant as Stoner #1

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"Dead Man's Party" is episode 2 of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy struggles with life back in Sunnydale. Her problems with Angel, combined with the anger and distance of her friends and mother, only make things more difficult. However, everyone is eventually brought back together when a Nigerian mask that Joyce has acquired causes an army of zombies to rise up all over Sunnydale.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Continuity 2.1 Arc significance
3 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Joyce is hanging up a Nigerian mask given by a gallery friend while Buffy finishes unpacking. Joyce reluctantly allows Buffy to go to find her friends, who are coordinating a vampire hunt via walkie-talkies. The bumbling gang and Buffy each jump in surprise at their sudden meeting. At Giles' apartment, Buffy avoids most questions about her summer, while Giles hides his emotions of relief in the kitchen and Oz reveals to Buffy that she is no longer a murder suspect.
The next day, Joyce takes Buffy to see Principal Snyder, who takes vindictive pleasure in refusing to lift his expulsion of Buffy. Joyce then drops off Buffy at a coffee shop for a scheduled meeting with Willow, who does not show up. She goes home and runs into Pat, a member of Joyce's book club, who does not hesitate to comment about Buffy's recent behavior and its impact on Joyce. Soon, Buffy finds a dead cat in the basement. Buffy and Joyce bury it but, that night, the Nigerian mask's eyes glow red and the dead cat crawls out of the earth.
Buffy has a nightmare involving Angel. When she wakes, the clearly dead cat surprises her in the kitchen. Giles arrives to remove it in a cage. He notices the mask before leaving for the library, informing Buffy that she is not allowed on school grounds. At school, Buffy's friends decide to throw a big party. The discussion distracts Giles from a page showing Joyce's mask.
Dingoes Ate My Baby soon arrives at Buffy's house without notice. Overwhelmed by dozens of guests she does not know, Buffy tries to talk to a distracted Willow, but gives up. Xander and Cordelia are too busy kissing to care. Meanwhile, Joyce is telling Pat in the kitchen how tough Buffy's return has been on her. Overhearing Joyce's words, combined with the coldness from her friends and the problems with school, Buffy decides it was a mistake to come back and starts packing.
At the library, Giles is horrified by what he finally uncovers about the mask. He tries to phone Buffy, but party-goers fail to relay the message. Driving to the party, Giles hits a man in the road, gets out of the car and finds the man reanimated. Giles barely escapes oncoming zombies as bodies rise all over Sunnydale and are inexorably drawn to Joyce's mask.
Willow finds Buffy in the bedroom packing to leave and starts berating her angrily for all the pain and worry she caused. Joyce joins her and when Buffy tries to leave the party, she stops the merriment. Buffy and Joyce argue right in the midst of the party, and Willow, Xander, and Oz immediately side with Joyce over Buffy who still refuses to talk about what is going on with her. As the argument goes even more heated, the revenants crash through the windows and doors, causing the Scoobies to immediately stop arguing and band together to combat the threat. Several guests are killed. Oz and Cordelia hide in a downstairs closet while Buffy and others rush upstairs with a gravely-injured Pat. In the bedroom, Willow checks Pat's pulse and finds she is dead.
Giles arrives to tell Oz and Cordelia about the mask containing the powers of the zombie demon Ovu Mobani, which means "Evil Eye." Whichever zombie puts it on becomes the demon incarnate – and Pat does so. The demon's gaze can hypnotize anyone who looks into its eyes. Buffy pushes the Pat/Demon out of the window when it is about to kill Willow. Oz tries to tell Buffy about how to kill it - destroy its eyes - when he is hypnotized. Buffy to plunges a shovel into its eyes and it vanishes, along with all the other zombies. As the buried remains vanish, so does the anger that Joyce and the other Scoobies had for Buffy, and the entire group embraces.
The next day, Giles tries to convince Snyder to let Buffy return. When he refuses, Giles applies a little political intimidation. In the coffee shop, Willow tells Buffy about her dating Oz and dabbling in magic and the two are once again best friends, yet Buffy still does not want to talk about why she left months before or about where she was. The episode ends with Buffy and Willow trading playful insults.
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
Buffy has reconciled with her friends. She now must deal with herself.
This episode hints about Principal Snyder's connections with the mayor (when Joyce and Buffy are in his office). The mayor will eventually become the Big Bad of this season.
Willow talks about her practicing of magic, indicating her growth as a witch - something that becomes important later on in the series.
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"Faith, Hope & Trick"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Faith in her first appearance on the series, after staking a vampire

Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 3
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
David Greenwalt
Production code
3ABB03
Original air date
October 13, 1998
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
K. Todd Freeman as Mr. Trick
Fab Filippo as Scott Hope
Jeremy Roberts as Kakistos
Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder
John Ennis as Manager

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"Faith, Hope & Trick" is the third episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode title is a pastiche of the Biblical verse 1 Corinthians 13:13 ("And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity") while using names of three characters introduced in the episode.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Writing
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
The episode begins with Willow excitedly talking to Oz about how they are seniors and now allowed to go off school campus for lunch. Still, it takes Xander, Cordelia, and Oz to get her to walk to the grassy area where Buffy has set up a picnic basket; unable to enter school grounds. The group tries to get Buffy to talk to fellow student Scott Hope, believing they should date.
That night, Kakistos and his colleague, Mr. Trick arrive in town, discussing how they will kill the slayer. Meanwhile, Buffy has yet another dream involving Angel, this time at the Bronze. As they dance in front of their friends, the ring Angel gave Buffy falls off her finger. Picking it up, Angel experiences a flashback of Buffy killing him, before his appearance turns to that of a zombie. Later that day, Buffy and Mrs. Summers attend a meeting with Principal Snyder, where Snyder reluctantly allows Buffy to return to the school, having been overruled by the school board.
Buffy and Willow go to the library, where Giles has asked them to meet him for help research a binding spell he wants to perform on Acathla to make sure that the demon cannot be resurrected again. Buffy gives little detail about her encounter with Angel before leaving, while Willow eagerly lends her help, having been practicing magic. That night at the Bronze, Scott attempts to talk to Buffy, however she becomes distracted by a suspected vampire leading a girl outside. Buffy enters an ally with the rest of the group, where they witness the girl slaying the vampire before she introduces herself as Faith, a new vampire slayer.
Inside, Cordelia realises that the death of Kendra must have summoned Faith. Faith tells stories of her slaying encounters of that summer in Boston, and that her Watcher had travelled to England for a retreat. The group instantly take a liking to Faith, however Buffy remains more skeptical. The following day at school, Giles confirms there is a Watchers' retreat, however he wasn't invited. Buffy continues to become more isolated as her friends bond with Faith, and becomes jealous when she begins flirting with Scott. Meanwhile, Kakistos and Mr. Trick plot revenge on Faith for mutilating Kakistos face.
That night, Faith joins Buffy and Joyce for dinner, where Joyce too bonds with Faith. The slayers then go patrolling, where Buffy's skepticism and Faith's care free attitude leads to a fight. Soon after, they are attacked by a group of vampires. While Buffy struggles to slay a number of vampires, Faith instead focuses only on one, beating the vampire repeatedly instead of helping Buffy. The following morning, Buffy warns Giles of Faiths behaviour, but he takes little notice. Buffy also tells Giles the vampires were working for Kakistos, a vampire that is so old and powerful that his hands are cloven. Buffy begins to suspect that Faith and Kakistos are somehow connected after learning that Faith's watcher is dead. After leaving the library, Buffy runs in to Scott, who tries to ask her out on a date. Buffy accepts, but she runs away very disturbed when Scott hands her a ring exactly like the one Angel gave her. Giles comes up, and tells Buffy that Faith's watcher is dead.
Buffy goes to see Faith and tells her Kakistos is in town. Faith becomes panicked and begins to pack a bag, intending to leave town. Faith tells Buffy that Kakistos murdered her watcher and swears revenge on her for mutilating him with an axe. As Faith tries to leave, Kakistos and a group of vampires break into the room. Buffy and Faith escape through a window, however are lured to Kakistos lair. Buffy fights and slays many of the vampires while Kakistos attacks Faith. Eventually, Buffy tries to slay Kakistos, however the stake does not kill him. Faith instead impales Kakistos with a large beam, finally killing him. Mr. Trick retreats with another vampire.
Back in the library, the Council approves Giles's recommendation that he remain Faith's Watcher until a replacement can be found. Inspired by Faith's actions and how she stood up to her fears and conquered them, Buffy finally tells Giles and Willow that Angel was cured when she was forced to kill him. Giles says that it will help with the spell, and Willow apologizes to Buffy for being so hard on her. When Buffy leaves, Willow once again approaches Giles to offer her help with the binding spell for Acathla, but Giles tells Willow that "there is no spell." He was merely trying to get Buffy to open up about what happened with Angel so that she could start to heal emotionally. Buffy finally talks to Scott, and they make plans to go out later on. The scene changes to show Buffy returning to the mansion where she killed Angel and stopped Acathla, finally able to say good-bye. She leaves her Claddagh ring on the ground and departs. Soon thereafter, Angel manifests, returned from hell.
Writing[edit]
This episode introduces the character of Faith Lehane, who plays a vital part in the remainder of this season, the seventh season, and the eventual spin-off series, Angel. The minor characters of Mr. Trick (Kakistos' right-hand vampire turned Mayor's assistant) and Scott Hope (Buffy's brief rebound romance after Angel) are also introduced.
The surprise ending – the return of Angel – leads to major conficts for the Scooby Gang for the remainder of the season.
Continuity[edit]
Angel's resurrection is questioned many times. Despite The First Evil's claims that it was the one that brought him back in ("Amends"), the true cause of his return is never verified. In the Angel episode, "Hell Bound," it is revealed that Angel still questions why he returned, revealing that even he has doubts about whether it was truly The First that was responsible.
While showing Faith around Sunnydale High, Xander and Willow refer to events of several past episodes: Willow: "Over here, we have the cafeteria, where we were mauled by snakes." ("I Only Have Eyes for You")
Xander: "This is the spot where, uh, Angel tried to kill Willow." ("Innocence")
Willow: "Over there in the lounge is where Spike and his gang nearly massacred us all on Parent-Teacher Night." ("School Hard")
Willow: "And up those stairs, I was sucked into a muddy grave." ("I Only Have Eyes for You")
Buffy mentions The Three as being among her more difficult adversaries, warrior vampires sent by The Master in the Season One episode ("Angel").
Arc significance[edit]
Several story arcs begin during this episode, among them:
Buffy finally faces up to her ordeal of last season, and it becomes general knowledge among the Scoobies that Angel was re-ensouled prior to being killed.
Angel returns from Hell, where he was stuck for about 100 years, as mentioned in "Deep Down".
A new Slayer, Faith, arrives. Although she and Buffy are united as Slayers, they are polar opposites as young women.
While fighting vampires, Faith taunts one by declaring "My dead mother hit harder than that!" This is the first reference to Faith's abusive childhood.
Willow continues to dabble in magic after her attempt to restore Angel's soul. She is even more encouraged when she finds out that she had in fact succeeded in the Ritual of Restoration.
Buffy begins a relationship with Scott. However, this relationship ends two episodes later, in "Homecoming", when Scott says Buffy isn't that exciting anymore. Scott isn't mentioned until Season 7, when Buffy has a fight with former high school classmate Holden Webster, who points out that Scott "came out last year".
Buffy feels as if Faith is taking over her (Buffy's) life, a theme explored further in Season 7, particularly the episodes "Empty Places", and "Touched". It also foreshadows the Season 4 episodes "This Year's Girl" and "Who Are You", in which Faith literally switches lives (and bodies) with Buffy.
Buffy asking Faith if she's hungry after the slaying of Kakistos is an indication that they share some similarities as Faith mentions that she always gets hungry and horny after slaying. Buffy has denied being horny, but admitted to being hungry. This is also confirmed in the season finale of the Season One episode ("Prophecy Girl"), when after Buffy defeats The Master, she mentions she is hungry. It is echoed in later seasons, when Dawn mentions that the first place Buffy goes after slaying is the refrigerator.
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"Beauty and the Beasts"
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Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 4
Directed by
James Whitmore, Jr.
Written by
Marti Noxon
Production code
3ABB04
Original air date
October 20, 1998
Guest actors

Fab Filippo as Scott Hope
John Patrick White as Pete Clarner
Danielle Weeks as Debbie
Phill Lewis as Mr. Platt
Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane

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"Beauty and the Beasts" is the fourth episode of Season 3 of the horror-drama television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
When a boy is found mauled to death on the nights surrounding the full moon Oz is suspected. It is discovered however that one of Scott's (Buffy's boyfriend) friends was responsible after he took a potion which turned him into a 'macho man'. Buffy has to defeat him while dealing with the fact that Angel is back from Hell, broken and animalistic.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Writing
3 Bestiary 3.1 Pete Clarner
3.2 Werewolves
3.3 Demon dimensions
4 Continuity 4.1 Arc significance
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
The night before a full moon, Willow reads from The Call of the Wild to an agitated Oz, who is in his werewolf form and has been locked up in the library cage. Xander shows up for the second shift—or rather, snoozing. Meanwhile, Faith and Buffy are making a sweep around Sunnydale. Faith displays a cynical view of males, while Buffy dodges her questions. They talk about Scott and how much Buffy likes him, but is still planning to take it slow on account of her previous history with men. A boy is attacked brutally in the woods.
The next day, Buffy talks to Scott and his friends, Debbie and Pete, who are a couple. Buffy reveals that she has to see Mr. Platt, the school psychologist. Debbie sees him, too, for "success issues". Buffy kisses Scott goodbye and leaves for her appointment.
Xander and Giles find out about the murder the night before. They discover that Xander slept through his watch and that the window in the pen is open. Everyone is horrified that Oz may have escaped and killed someone.
Buffy talks to Mr. Platt about her life as vaguely as she can. She finds in him an understanding figure—unlike Debbie's description—and begins to open up. She seems to be on her way to resolving her issues, but on patrol that night, Angel tackles her in the woods. Animalistic, he is no match for Buffy, who chains him up in the mansion. He growls at her like an animal and seems incapable of speech. She discovers the spot on the floor where she left his ring; it was scorched by Angel's body on his return.
At the same time, Willow, Xander and Cordy enter the morgue to inspect the mauled body. Willow seems the only one unfazed, but she faints after collecting hair samples.
With everyone else unavailable, Faith stays in the library with Oz. Buffy comes in and receives a hard punch for startling her. Buffy sends Faith away and spends the night searching for answers about Angel's return. The next morning, Giles finds her asleep around books about demon dimensions and Acathla. She tells him she had a vivid dream that Angel came back. Giles explains that time passes differently in Hell (as Buffy found out in "Anne"), so any being who manages to return would most likely become a monster, due to the extreme amount of torture suffered, if return is possible at all. It would take extraordinary character to retain any semblance of self. Willow arrives to inform them that her investigation was not conclusive. Buffy is anxious as she wonders if Angel was responsible.
In the cafeteria, Buffy sits with Scott, whose mother is insulted by Pete along with the school counselor. Buffy decides to leave for the mansion, where she finds Angel huddled in a ball. She tries to touch him, but he jumps at her. She rushes out, scared.
Pete and Debbie sneak into a room to make out. Pete discovers that one of his jars has been emptied and accuses Debbie of drinking its contents. Buffy returns to Mr. Platt's office and pours her heart out, then realizes that he has been mauled to death.
Pete yells at Debbie, then turns into a monster with very noticeable veins. He tells her that he needed the substance to turn into the monster, but now only needs to get mad. Acting in a manner similar to 'roid rage, he begins beating Debbie, then apologizes, turning back into his human face. She forgives him.
In the library, Oz and Angel (who Buffy has not informed the gang of) are cleared. The Scoobies must look for a murderer who kills during the day.
Oz meets up with Debbie and gives her his study notes as promised. He notices her black eye, but she lies to Oz, telling him she fell on a doorknob. He lets her know he will listen if she decides to talk, intuiting the true nature of events. Meanwhile, Pete is watching and seething.
The gang have discovered the killer, and they leave Oz in the library to look for Pete and Debbie. Buffy and Willow find Debbie in the locker room and try in vain to talk sense into her, but Debbie tries to defend Pete and his actions. Meanwhile, Angel breaks free from his shackles, and Pete finds Oz in the library. He turns into a monster and beats up Oz. Then the sun sets, and Oz becomes a werewolf. Buffy and the rest of the gang arrive to stop the fight, but when Buffy tries to tranquilize Oz, Debbie deliberately pushes her gun away and Buffy ends up shooting Giles. Buffy chases after Pete while Willow and Faith follow Oz.
After a struggle, Faith manages to hit and knock out Oz with a dart. Buffy follows Pete's blood trail, but he finds Debbie first and despite her pleas and her attempts to appease him, he kills her. Buffy finds Pete, but he knocks her to the ground and advances threateningly on her. Angel arrives in the nick of time and he and Pete begin fighting; after knocking Angel aside, Pete turns his attention back to Buffy, but Angel gets back up and, using the chains still binding his wrists, snaps Pete's neck, killing him. Afterwards, he notices Buffy, but instead of attacking her, he reverts to his human face and calls out her name before falling to his knees and embracing her in tears. More confused than ever, Buffy begins to cry as well, finally accepting that Angel is back.
The next day, it is revealed that Pete had concocted a chemical potion that turned him "super-más macho" when he became afraid of losing Debbie, but eventually he became monstrous himself. Buffy tries to console Scott, who has lost two of his best friends. Buffy visits the mansion, where Angel sleeps through an apparent nightmare unshackled. The episode ends with Buffy reading from "Call of the Wild".
Writing[edit]
This episode deals with abusive relationships, particularly the types that involve teenagers, and how they sometimes end. The episode clearly reflects Battered person syndrome, through cycles of violence, apologies, forgiveness, and repeated spirals of the behavior, leading to greater and greater physical harm.
References to the Incredible Hulk and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are also apparent.
Bestiary[edit]
Pete Clarner[edit]
Pete Clarner is a jealous, violent and insecure young man who feels threatened by anyone who talks to Debbie, for which he concocts a potion that mutates him, causing his veins and skin to thicken and his eyes to turn solid black. The potion also gives him talons and superhuman strength. At first, Pete needed the potion to transform, but now his own anger triggers the transformation.
Werewolves[edit]
Oz's werewolf form, last seen in "Phases", is radically changed. In "Phases", the werewolf is portrayed as a gray bipedal creature with a wolf-like head. Beginning in this episode, its fur is a darker brown, it moves largely on four legs, and it has a human-like, hairless face with no muzzle.
Demon dimensions[edit]
Giles explains that demon dimensions are places of brutal torment for those who have human souls, in which time moves extremely fast by earth's standards. Over the time between being sent to hell and brought back, Angel has experienced hundreds of years of torment. In the spin-off Angel, after one of Angel's enemies kidnaps his newborn son, Connor, to the hell dimension Quor'Toth, he returns approximately seventeen years older and mentally unstable. Angel himself later reveals that he was stranded in hell for about a hundred years.
Continuity[edit]
When Buffy talks to Debbie in the locker room, she is standing in front of a poster that reads "Most girls aren't attracted to dead guys".
Arc significance[edit]
Buffy will keep Angel's return hidden from others as she struggles to understand it.
The first attempt of Oz to control being a werewolf and his doubts of whether the wolf is a part of him or a separate being are first seen in this episode.
Angel's return from Hell will also be part of the premise for his own show.
Buffy now has had two teachers that were nice to her and tried to understand her predicament die tragically shortly afterwards.
When talking about how time moves differently in hell Buffy says "I remember", a reference to her experiences with a hell dimension in the Season Three premiere episode "Anne".
External links[edit]
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Homecoming (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Homecoming"
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Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 5
Directed by
David Greenwalt
Written by
David Greenwalt
Production code
3ABB05
Original air date
November 3, 1998
Guest actors

K. Todd Freeman as Mr. Trick
Jeremy Ratchford as Lyle Gorch
Fab Filippo as Scott Hope
Ian Abercrombie as German Boss
Harry Groener as Mayor Richard Wilkins
Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
Jack Plotnick as Deputy Mayor Allan Finch
Jason Hall as Devon MacLeish
Joseph Daube as Hans Gruenstahler
Jermyn Daube as Frederick Gruenstahler
Lee Everett as Candy Gorch
Tori McPetrie as Michelle Blake
Chad Stahelski as Kulak

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"Homecoming" is episode 5 of season 3 of the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
After Scott breaks up with her, Buffy runs for homecoming queen. This puts her against Cordelia and the two fall out. Meanwhile Willow and Xander kiss and feeling guilty help Cordelia's run for homecoming instead of Buffy. Buffy and Cordelia are tricked into a limo to reconcile but end up in a deadly game of SlayerFest '98. Old enemies have returned to kill the slayers and Cordelia is mistaken for Faith and therefore has to help Buffy fight for their lives.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Production details 2.1 Allusions
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
After Scott asks Buffy to the Homecoming dance, the young Scoobies decide to share a limo on the night. However, Scott breaks up with Buffy the following day, leaving her feeling hurt. Buffy continues to feed a weak Angel in secret, telling him the others would not understand that he is now better - as well as telling him about Scott.
At school, Buffy is monitored by two men in a van that are somehow connected to Mr. Trick. They overhear Buffy mention that a limo will pick up Faith and then her to take them to Homecoming. Meanwhile, Deputy Mayor Allan Finch enters the Mayor's office. He reports two German brothers who are major criminals arriving in Sunnydale. The Mayor gently chides him for not cleaning his hands enough. At school, the gang sends Cordelia to remind Buffy that yearbook photos were about to take place. However, Cordelia is distracted in persuading other students to vote for her for Homecoming Queen, and she leaves without giving Buffy the message.
After Buffy realises her favourite teacher does not even remember her, she becomes saddened by her low stance on the social hierarchy of Sunnydale High. She tells her frustrations to Xander, Willow and Oz who reluctantly remind her that she missed yearbook photos. Upon learning it was Cordelia's fault, Buffy confronts her. However, Cordelia shows no caring and blames her hectic Homecoming Queen campaign. Enraged, Buffy decides to also run for the title.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trick introduces a competition, "SlayerFest '98", with a group of participants, including the German twin assassins (whom had been monitoring Buffy beforehand) Hans & Fredrick Gruenstahler, "The Most Dangerous Game" hunter Frawley, Kulak, a demon of the Miquot Clan, and Lyle Gorch from "Bad Eggs" and his new wife Candy.
At night, Xander and Willow meet to try on their Homecoming clothes. They admire one another before finally kissing. The following day, Buffy is analyzing the competition for Homecoming Queen with Xander, Willow, Oz and Giles. Cordelia enters the library and tells Buffy her friends are all instead committed to her campaign, Xander helping as her boyfriend, Willow constructing a database and Oz going along with Willow. Slightly confused, Buffy decides to carry out her campaign alone. After a few days, Buffy and Cordelia engage in a heated argument, while Xander and Willow continue to help Cordelia; feeling guilty about their kiss.
As Homecoming night arrives, the limo arrives to collect Buffy. Cordelia, the only other person in the limo, gives Buffy a note from the rest of the gang whom have decided to make their own way to the dance, giving Buffy and Corelida time to make up. Upon exiting the limo, the girls find themselves isolated in a remote location. They discover a tape addressed to Buffy and Faith detailing the hunting of the slayers in SlayerFest '98. Not realizing Cordelia is not the correct target, the participants begin to attack. Buffy defeats Frawley before the girls seek shelter in a cabin.
While at the dance, Xander and Willow are still feeling guilty about their kiss. Faith, annoyed at Scott for breaking up with Buffy, embarrasses him in front of his new date. Back in the cabin, Buffy and Cordelia find a phone and attempt to alert Giles of their situation, but the phone is soon cut dead. While hiding, Cordelia says she loves Xander while Buffy mentions she spent a years allowance on her dress to have one perfect moment in high school. For a moment the two girls understand one another. Kulak breaks into the cabin and fights with Buffy. Meanwhile, the German assassins throw a grenade inside. Buffy and Cordelia escape and run back to the library, but Kulak is killed.
Upon arriving at the library, Buffy and Cordelia find Giles has been knocked unconscious by Lyle and Candy. Buffy manages to stake Candy, but is knocked out in the process. Cordelia then scares off Lyle by taunting him. As Buffy and Giles regain consciousness, they realise the German assassins are able to track them by their corsages which were also in the limo. Buffy distracts the assassins as they enter the school, managing to plant the corsages on them and have them annihilate each other with their high-tech equipment. As Slayerfest '98 concludes, two policemen escort Mr. Trick to the Mayor's office, who informs him he help to control rebellious youths.
Buffy and Cordelia finally arrive at the Homecoming dance only to find that they both lost the campaign for the title. Beaten, the girls then leave together.
Production details[edit]
Allusions[edit]
Oz's reply to Buffy's call for support in the library, "As Willow goes, so goes my nation," is a reference to the traditional American political phrase "As Maine goes, so goes the nation", alluding both to Oz's inseparable devotion to Willow, and the increasing political atmosphere of the episode.
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
Mayor Richard Wilkins III appears for the first time, and displays what will be his trademark: a disturbing attention to cleanliness.
Xander and Willow begin to explore their mutual attraction.
Buffy's wish for a perfect moment in high school will be granted in "The Prom".
This episode marks the second and final appearance of Lyle Gorch.
Buffy's favorite class in high school was "Contemporary American Heroes from Amelia Earhart to Maya Angelou".
Kulak identifies himself as a Miquot demon. This is the first Buffyverse instance of a demon being identified as a member of a particular subspecies; in previous episodes, demons were known only by individual names (Eyghon, der Kindestod, Machida, Moloch, etc.) -- and, on a single occasion, a name for a group of demons (the Brotherhood of Seven) -- implying that each demon was unique. Identification of Buffyverse demon subspecies became far more common with the spinoff series Angel.
This is a rare episode in which Buffy deliberately (albeit indirectly) kills "normal" humans (e.g. humans without magical powers), as she manipulates the Gruenstahler brothers into shooting each other.
External links[edit]
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Band Candy
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Not to be confused with The Candy Band.

"Band Candy"
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Giles and Joyce in Giles' apartment listening to music, under the influence of the band candy, causing them to act as teenagers

Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 6
Directed by
Michael Lange
Written by
Jane Espenson
Production code
3ABB06
Original air date
November 10, 1998
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
K. Todd Freeman as Mister Trick
Robin Sachs as Ethan Rayne
Harry Groener as Mayor Richard Wilkins
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder
Jason Hall as Devon MacLeish
Peg Stewart as Ms. Barton

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"Band Candy" is the sixth episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Production
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 References
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Buffy combines her slaying with studying for the SAT in the graveyard with Giles. The SATs occupy a lot of Buffy's thoughts, and Buffy complains that that, along with her slaying duties, have resulted in her being scheduled 24/7 by her mother and Giles. She then gets another duty: Principal Snyder is handing out boxes of candy to all the students, which they must sell to pay for new marching band uniforms.
Buffy sells half of her chocolate bars to her mom, and the two get into an argument because her mother refuses to let her learn to drive. Buffy then leaves for the library, telling her mother she will be studying with Giles for the night. She sells the other half of her quota of candy to Giles, then leaves, telling him her mother wants her home early. Instead, Buffy visits Angel, who is practicing T'ai chi. When she arrives home, Buffy finds her mother and Giles waiting, both of them angry that she lied to them about her whereabouts. They send her to bed and proceed to commiserate while eating the band candy. Meanwhile, at a local warehouse filled with workers packaging the candy bars, Ethan Rayne is revealed to be overseeing the operation.
The next day, Giles fails to show up for study hall, where Xander and Willow are playing footsie. Giles' substitute, Ms. Barton, behaves oddly and dismisses the study hall. Worried, Buffy goes to Giles' place and finds her mom on the couch. Giles explains that they are rescheduling her activities to lessen her burden, and Joyce offhandedly gives her her car keys to drive home, to Buffy's astonishment. When Buffy is gone, Giles lights up a cigarette and Joyce pulls out a bottle of Kahlúa. Giles, now acting like he did as a teen, when he was known as "Ripper," invites Joyce out for some fun.
Buffy frightens Willow with her driving. They find the Bronze packed with adults who are acting like teenagers, including Principal Snyder. Buffy and Willow leave with Oz and Snyder, who insists on tagging along, and decide to head over to Giles' place to find out what is going on.
At the warehouse, Mr. Trick checks up on Ethan Rayne and the production of the chocolate bars. Trick suddenly (and arbitrarily) accuses one of the workers of eating the candy, and kills him as an example. He then leaves to perform the "tribute."
Meanwhile, out on the town, Joyce and Giles are up to some hijinx. Giles robs a shop for a coat for Joyce, then he subdues the policemen who comes to stop them, stealing his gun in the process. Then he and Joyce start making out on the hood of the police car.
Buffy gets into a car accident that dents her mom's car. Buffy eventually puts two and two together and realizes that the candy is making everyone act like immature teenagers. Buffy sends Willow and Oz to the library and drives to the warehouse after Snyder tells her where the band candy comes from. Upon arrival, Buffy finds her mother and Giles kissing in the middle of the street. Buffy tries to reason with her mother, but her mother acts sullen and hostile to Buffy's authority. She enters the factory, taking Joyce along; Giles and Snyder follow. Inside, Buffy finds and catches Ethan; her threat of violence easily persuades him to reveal that Trick needs to dull Sunnydale adults in order to collect a tribute that is so valuable that they need all of the adults to be incapacitated to take it. They do not know what the tribute is, but it is intended for a demon named Lurconis.
Meanwhile, four vampires enter a now unguarded hospital to remove four newborn babies. Buffy and the wacked out adults arrive at the hospital a little later, where Willow phones them from the library and relays to them the discovery that Lurconis eats babies. Giles remembers that the demon may be found in the sewers.
Down in the sewers, the Mayor, Mr. Trick, and the four vampires are chanting in a ceremony to summon Lurconis. Buffy, Giles and Joyce crash the party underground, and the Mayor quickly flees unnoticed. Buffy defeats the vampires while Giles and Joyce retrieve the babies to safety. Trick escapes and the huge demon appears. Buffy pulls down a gas pipe, igniting a fire that kills Lurconis.
Back at his office, the Mayor asks why Trick fled, allowing Buffy to kill Lurconis. Trick replies that he thought he did the Mayor a favor by having the Slayer kill the demon, leaving one less demon to whom the Mayor would owe tribute. The Mayor warns Trick against doing him any more such favors.
The next day, the adults have returned to their senses. Snyder, reverted to his grumpy and misanthropic self, chooses Willow, Oz, Xander and Cordelia as "volunteers" to clean up the mess in the hall. Buffy complains to Giles about the SATs. They meet Joyce, and Buffy exclaims that they're lucky she stopped them before they did more than they did. Joyce and Giles then look very embarrassed, but Buffy fails to notice.
Production[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Band Candy
Kristine Sutherland, who plays Joyce Summers, has named "Band Candy" as one of her favorite Buffy episodes, along with "Ted", "When She Was Bad" and "Innocence".
The Cream song "Tales of Brave Ulysses" later reappeared in the season five episode "Forever", where Giles listens to the record after Joyce's funeral, in remembrance of the events of this episode.
The accent used by Teenage Giles is Anthony Head's normal accent.
Buffy quotes 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' by saying "Let's do the Time Warp again." when she and Willow walk into the Bronze. Anthony Head actually starred in a production of The Rocky Horror Show.
This is the first episode where script writer Jane Espenson is credited. Later on, she would love to put Giles and Joyce in front of embarrassing situations in the episodes she'd write, as a recollection of their sexual intercourse happening in "Band Candy".[1]
In the White Collar Season 3 episode Taking Account, the character Peter Burke states that he persuaded a friend in the U.S. Attorney's office to grant him a warrant needed for the episode's investigation by buying a good deal of her child's band candy, and that he wished they had something besides "those damn chocolate bars". Jeff Eastin acknowledged on his live Twitter feed during the airing of that episode that the dialogue is a deliberate reference to this episode, and a "shout out" to Jane Espenson, who is now part of the White Collar writing staff.
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
Willow and Xander continue their dangerous liaison.
The Mayor once more shows his character, while Snyder proves to be an ignorant participant in his evil schemes.
The glaring implication at the end that Giles and Joyce went further than kisses is confirmed in "Earshot".
This is Ethan Rayne's first appearance since the previous season's "The Dark Age".
The demon Lurconis is very similar to the demon the Mayor transforms into at the end of the season.
In the scenes where Giles is wearing only a tee shirt, a Mark of Eyghon tattoo is clearly visible on his left inner forearm. This is in keeping with his 'Ripper' backstory as presented in "The Dark Age".
Willow learns that although Lurconis receives a tribute every thirty years, the one prepared in this episode is late; no reason for the usually ultra-punctual Mayor's lateness is given, but it might be theorized that he delayed the tribute as long as possible in hope of Buffy dying or leaving Sunnydale in the interim, so she would not interfere with it, as she in fact does here.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ DVD Commentary, Season 5 Episode 15 "I Was Made to Love You".
External links[edit]
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Revelations (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Revelations"
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Gwendolyn Post using the Glove of Myneghon to conjure lightning

Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 7
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
Doug Petrie
Production code
3ABB07
Original air date
November 17, 1998
Guest actors

Serena Scott Thomas as Gwendolyn Post
Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane
Jason Hall as Devon MacLeish
Kate Rodger as Paramedic

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"Revelations" is the seventh episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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2 Production
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 Trivia
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Gwendolyn Post shows up as Faith's new Watcher. She is British, strict, arrogant, and looks down on all the Scoobies and especially Giles. She warns that the demon Lagos is in Sunnydale looking for the Glove of Myneghon, a powerful gauntlet.
While doing research, Xander and Willow kiss again. Due to his guilt, Xander goes looking for the Glove of Myneghon. He instead finds to his surprise Angel and Buffy kissing. Angel shows Buffy that he has recovered the glove and now he needs to get a way to destroy it.
While Giles is meeting with Mrs. Post, whose constant criticism leaves him on edge, Xander arrives to tell Giles about Angel. Post does not overhear the conversation, but knows that they are keeping a big secret from her.
The gang stages an intervention with Buffy. Xander and Cordelia are hostile about Angel and see him as a serious threat, unable to separate him from the recent activities of Angelus. Willow (and by association, Oz) are less sure and advise caution, though Willow is partly motivated by guilt about her own private romantic indiscretions with Xander. Buffy tells them that Angel has the glove with him and now they are going to destroy it. Giles ultimately comes to Buffy's defense, but in private scolds her for keeping the secret, reminds her of her responsibilities, tells her about how Angel tortured him for hours, and says that she has no respect for him or his job as a Watcher.
Post then goes to visit Faith at the motel and lets drop that Giles is having a secret meeting with Buffy and her friends, which makes Faith feel excluded. The angry Faith ends up in a bar with Xander, who tells her that Angel is alive and has the glove. The two nurse their grudges together; Faith decides to slay Angel and Xander eagerly volunteers to accompany her.
Post arrives to speak with Giles at Giles' behest. He tells her where the glove is, and that "a friend of Buffy's" has it. He wants to discuss destroying it with her, but when he turns his back, Post bludgeons him, knocking him out.
Xander returns with Faith to the library to get weapons, but he find Giles unconscious and gravely injured. He calls 911. Faith is sure that Angel attacked Giles, but Xander thinks not because it is not his style and there are no bite marks. Faith goes alone to Angel's while Xander stays with Giles and is joined soon after by Buffy. Xander tells Buffy about Faith's goal. Gwendolyn shows up at the mansion first and knocks out Angel, who she thinks is human. Angels attacks Post, and then Faith attacks Angel, thinking he killed Post because he wants the glove. Post tells Faith to attack Buffy, and the two Slayers fight.
Having successfully distracted the Slayers and enlisted the help of Xander and Willow, Post retrieves the glove and attacks, demonstrating the glove's power to manipulate the elements and, most hazardously, lightning. At this point, the gang all realize who the real enemy is, and unite to attack. Faith draws her fire, Angel gets Willow to safety, and Buffy cuts off Post's arm, leading to her electrocution because she no longer has the glove. The Scooby Gang are still wary of Angel but trust Buffy's judgment, except for Cordelia. Buffy goes to Faith's apartment and tries to convince her that she is on Faith's side. But Faith doesn't believe her and as Buffy leaves, Faith says to her, "I'm on my side. That's enough."
Production[edit]
The lightning that shoots from the Glove of Myhneghon in this episode was drawn frame by frame by an artist per Joss Whedon's request.
Continuity[edit]
Buffy cuts off Gwendolyn's arm in the same way that Angel later cuts off Lindsey's hand in "To Shanshu in L.A.".
When Xander challenges Buffy about Angel's role in her love life, she immediately deflects the discussion to his own love life. This proves to be consistent behavior between Buffy and Xander; she similarly deflects him during conversations in "Into the Woods" and "Seeing Red".
Arc significance[edit]
Angel's resurrection is revealed to the Scoobies at large.
Xander and Willow continue their secret relationship, actually engaging in a lengthy kiss.
Faith finds someone to depend on and trust, only to find out that person a liar. This reinforces her distrust of other people. Gwendolyn Post also reinforced Faith's feeling of distance from the rest of the gang which she remains so for the remainder of the season.
Trivia[edit]
The Glove was included in DST's Weapons Accessory Pack for its range of Buffy action figures. It is solid rather than hollow so that figures cannot actually wear it.
External links[edit]
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"Lovers Walk"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Spike holds Willow captive, wanting her to use a love spell on Drusilla

Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 8
Directed by
David Semel
Written by
Dan Vebber
Production code
3ABB08
Original air date
November 24, 1998
Guest actors

James Marsters as Spike
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Harry Groener as Mayor Richard Wilkins
Jack Plotnick as Deputy Mayor Allan Finch
Marc Burnham as Lenny
Suzanne Krull as Clerk

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"Lovers Walk" is episode 8 of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing in a Series.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Christmas Buffy promo
3 Production details 3.1 The title
3.2 Cultural references
3.3 Music
3.4 Charisma Carpenter's scar
4 Angel's book
5 Continuity 5.1 Arc significance
6 References
7 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]


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Willow complains about receiving a 740 on the Verbal portion of her SATs, while Xander notes that her Verbal score closely resembles his combined score. Buffy's unexpected SAT score of 1430 makes her start to think about all of the opportunities open to her in her future, should she want them.
That night, Spike drives through the "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign, an echo of his actions when he first came to Sunnydale in School Hard, but this time he is extremely drunk and alone; he falls out of the car and reprises his first line in the series – "Home sweet home!" – before passing out. He returns to the old burned down factory (despondently singing Sid Vicious's cover of "My Way") and surveys the damage. He begins to shout and cry, destroying Drusilla's charred dolls and drunkenly wondering why she left him.
At school the next day, Xander persuades Cordelia to go on a double date with Willow and Oz. Oz presents Willow with a witch-themed Pez dispenser, and she is both delighted by the thoughtful gift and guilty because of the attraction she feels towards Xander.
Giles, packing for a Watchers' retreat, is delighted when he is presented with Buffy's SAT scores. Giles suggests that she has an opportunity to have a first-rate educational experience, and suggests that she could leave Sunnydale and her Slayer duties to Faith. He warns her about seeing Angel and she promises that nothing will happen between them because they are "just friends". Meanwhile, Xander and Willow have second thoughts about the bowling date with Oz and Cordelia. Willow is concerned that Oz and Cordelia will notice the attraction between her and Xander. She and Xander restate their commitment to avoid physical intimacy with each other. Xander tells her that he wishes that they could just get rid of their feelings of lust.
That night, Spike stands outside Angel's mansion and drunkenly rails at Angel for turning Dru against him, until he passes out in the garden.
Meanwhile, Buffy's mom continues to push the idea of college. When Buffy is resistant, Joyce asks her what could possibly be keeping her in Sunnydale, but Buffy does not mention Angel. Buffy visits Angel and asks his opinion on her future options, in the process trying to determine where their relationship stands. Angel, visibly torn, suggests as a friend that she go, reasoning that it is a good opportunity for her to live a life outside of her calling. Unhappy with his answer, Buffy leaves.
At dawn, Spike, still passed out in Angel's back garden, has his hand burned by the rising sunlight, forcing him to run back to his car with blacked out windows. A little later, Spike sneaks into the back of a local magic shop during the day in search of a curse for Angel. While he is there, Willow comes in looking for ingredients for a "de-lusting" spell. As she and the shopkeeper discuss ingredients, Spike, hidden, pays close attention. When Willow leaves, Spike kills the shopkeeper, having decided that a love spell to make Drusilla love him again would be a "better idea."
Later that day, the Mayor is playing golf in his office when his deputy lacky alerts him to Spike's return. The Mayor agrees that he organize and send a "committee" to deal with the problem.
At school, the night of the double date, Willow is in the chemistry lab, working on the ingredients for her anti-love spell. Xander shows up and they begin arguing when he figures out Willow was attempting to trick him into joining in the spell. Spike comes in and attacks Xander, knocking him unconscious, and announces that he needs to borrow Willow for a while. Spike takes Willow and the unconscious Xander back to the factory, where he locks them up. Spike explains his situation to Willow, first threatening her life if she fails to cast an effective spell, then sitting next to her and explaining that Dru thought he had gone soft after his alliance with Buffy, and was not "demon enough" for her anymore. The final blow had come when Dru told him that they could still be friends, not even having the decency to kill him. A frightened Willow tries half-heartedly to comfort the distraught Spike. When Willow tells Spike that she does not have enough ingredients, he takes her list and goes to collect what she needs.
At the library, Buffy is working out when Cordelia and Oz appear, worried because the lab is torn up and Willow and Xander are gone. Buffy tells them to go find Giles, and is preparing to go search for Willow and Xander herself when Buffy's mom calls her to discuss college, and over the line Buffy hears Spike say "Hello, Joyce." Buffy immediately runs home, thinking her mom is in danger. Meanwhile, Joyce offers Spike hot chocolate while he relates the painful details of his breakup with Dru. Angel spots them talking in the kitchen and attempts to attack Spike, but cannot enter the house because he is not invited. Joyce, thinking Angel is still evil, backs away while Angel begs her to invite him in, and Spike taunts him behind Joyce's back. Buffy arrives, pins Spike to the table and invites Angel in. Spike tells them he's got her friends and the three of them leave to get the supplies so that Willow can do the love spell and set Buffy's friends free.
As Oz and Cordelia are driving to find Giles, Oz catches Willow's scent and can tell that she is afraid ("a residual werewolf thing"). They follow the scent, hoping to find Willow and Xander.
Spike, Buffy, and Angel are getting the supplies when, prompted by Angel's comment that he's going to a lot of trouble for the sake of the fickle Drusilla, Spike tells them that they make him sick with their pretense that they can be friends. "You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it."
Xander wakes up to find that he and Willow are locked in the basement of the factory. They discuss what will happen to them. Deciding that the high probability of death is a mitigating factor, Willow and Xander kiss just in time for Oz and Cordelia to find them. Cordelia is horrified and runs up the stairs, but the stairs collapse and she falls through, and gets impaled on a piece of rebar sticking out of the rubble-covered floor below.
As they leave with the supplies, Buffy, Angel and Spike are surrounded by the "committee" of vampires sent by Trick. Spike points out that if Buffy and Angel leave him to die, then Willow and Xander die too. Buffy reluctantly joins the brawl. Spike, inspired and refreshed by the thrill of the fight, realizes that the only way to get Dru back is not via a love spell, but to become the man he once was, whom she loved. He tells Angel and Buffy that their friends are at the factory, and that he is going to find Drusilla, wherever she is, "tie her up, and torture her until she likes me again. Love's a funny thing."
Back at the factory, Xander makes it down to where Cordelia fell. After passing out from shock, the show cuts to a funeral, implying Cordelia had died. However, this is a ruse as the camera pans down to reveal Buffy and Willow walking in the cemetery. Willow tells Buffy that Cordelia survived the fall, but is in the hospital, having lost a lot of blood. She also says that Oz refuses to talk to her, and Buffy suggests time, patience, and groveling. When Xander brings flowers to Cordelia in the hospital, she tells him to stay away from her. Buffy visits Angel and tells him that they are not friends; she explains that she is not coming back, because he does not need her help anymore, and she cannot maintain the lie about their friendship to herself ("or Spike, for some reason"). Angel protests, and Buffy tells him that the only way they can see each other is if he tells her that he does not love her, something he cannot do. While each character broods in their own way, mourning for their broken relationships, a happy and confident Spike is seen back on the road driving out of Sunnydale, on his way to find Drusilla, while once again singing along to Sid Vicious' "My Way" on his car radio.
Christmas Buffy promo[edit]
Immediately after the first airing of "Lovers Walk" an advert aired featuring Gellar and Boreanaz as their characters, Buffy and Angel.
Buffy is standing outside at a phone booth. Strangely Sunnydale appears to be snowing. Buffy says, "This season with 1800 Collect, you don't have to be alone for the holidays". She begins dialing the phone. Buffy hears footsteps behind her. She turns grabs a stake-shaped icicle, and makes a staking motion before Angel grabs her hand. Buffy: "You should have called." Angel replies, "Sorry I'm late." The two smile, look into the snowing sky then walk off together.
The promo offered fans the chance to enter a sweepstakes every time they made a call using the 1-800-COLLECT communications system. The prize was a walk-on part on Buffy. Jessica Johnson of Maryland won a three-day trip for two to participate in the episode "The Prom".
Production details[edit]
The title[edit]
The title of the episode has been cited on listings, books and DVD covers and menus variously as "Lovers Walk", "Lover's Walk" and "Lovers' Walk". However, the introduction to Rhonda Wilcox's Why Buffy Matters says, "the script apparently does not carry an apostrophe, by the way--making for a short, sad, declarative sentence for a title." Most likely, the title is a nod to the Elvis Costello song of the same name (which also doesn't contain an apostrophe) from the album Trust.
Cultural references[edit]
The Simpsons — Willow, disappointed in her SAT Verbal score, describes herself as Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel.
Music[edit]
Spike sings the Frank Sinatra version of My Way at the beginning of the episode, and sings along to the Gary Oldman cover of My Way by the Sex Pistols at the end of the episode,[2] it is also of note that the Characters Spike and Drusilla were fashioned after the couple Sid and Nancy[3]
Gary Oldman - "My Way" Sung by Spike as he leaves Sunnydale. Spike's embrace of punk music, as opposed to quieter, more emotive music (Angel later shows an affinity for Barry Manilow as well as the "Rat Pack" itself, led by Frank Sinatra, who performed the most famous version of "My Way") is indicative of his personality as the foil to brooding intellectuals like Angel, as well as his former human self.
Spike gloomily sings "My Way", originally performed by Frank Sinatra as he wanders around his old haunts. When he is "back to his old self," he sings the wild Gary Oldman version. In Season Five of Angel, eye witnesses of an ensouled Spike's bravery will report that he asked them if they want to listen to Sex Pistols records after saving them.
The melancholic acoustic guitar piece 'Loneliness of Six' by George Doering is played during the penultimate scene of the episode[4]
Charisma Carpenter's scar[edit]
Carpenter has a large scar on her belly from a childhood accident. At five years old, playing around a swimming pool that was still under construction, she fell onto a piece of rebar. With the events of this episode, her character gains an identical injury with the same method.
Angel's book[edit]
The book Angel is seen reading is La Nausée (Nausea) by Jean-Paul Sartre; its main theme is the nature of existential angst, a quality often associated with Angel. The fact that the cover features the original French title suggests Angel is proficient enough with French to read the book in its original language. La Nausée has a great deal of personal significance for Joss Whedon. In his commentary for the Firefly episode "Objects in Space," Whedon says that when he first began to think about the meaning of life a friend gave him La Nausée, which defined his interpretation of existence.
Continuity[edit]
Buffy's last words to Angel ("Tell me you don't love me") are identical to the script she and Angel were forced to re-enact when possessed by the ghosts of a murder-suicide couple in the episode "I Only Have Eyes for You".
Cordelia asks "who would ever want to return to Sunnydale". After season three, Cordelia leaves and never returns to Sunnydale.
Spike's arrival in Sunnydale in the opening is a near-perfect recreation of his arrival in "School Hard" right up until he rams his car into the "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign.
The advert would have to take place on the next evening after "Amends". However, it is clearly not part of Buffyverse canon; both the narrator and Buffy break the Fourth wall.
When Xander catches Willow making a love potion, he mentions that he hasn't had a lot of success with those, referring to the events of "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered".
Arc significance[edit]
Spike makes his sole appearance this season before returning as a permanent regular in Season 4. He is still trying to recapture Drusilla's heart and resists the temptation to kill Willow in order to achieve it; he later reveals to Willow the extent of the bloodlust that he felt for her at this point.
This episode is the second example of Spike fighting alongside Buffy against other vampires and killing his own kind. One of the vampires mentions that Spike has "gone soft", which also echoes Drusilla's concerns over Spike's true character and his future with Buffy.
Joyce amiably hosts Spike in her house for the first time. This pattern will repeat several times later in the series.
Buffy recognizes for the first time that her relationship with Angel is doomed.
Xander and Willow's indiscretion has a major impact on their respective relationships.
This episode marks an early example of Willow automatically turning to magic to solve human problems and make her own life easier; as her powers grow stronger, so does her impulse to use magic as a catch-all problem solver and to manipulate human emotions. Eventually (Season Six), it becomes an addiction and has drastic implications for her life.
Cordelia leaves The Scooby Gang in this episode, but returns in "Enemies".
This episode marks the first time that Willow uncomfortably tries to comfort a highly distraught Spike. This dynamic will return in the Season Four episode "The Initiative," when Spike tries to attack Willow in her dorm room but is painfully hindered by his newly-implanted chip.
Oz recognizes Willow's scent. This is also significant in "New Moon Rising" when he smells her scent on Tara.
Spike's famous "Love's bitch" speech to Buffy and Angel, also can be seen to accurately describe Buffy and Spike's relationship in season six.
This is the final episode with Xander & Cordelia in a relationship. Their relationship remains strained until the prom.
It becomes apparent that Faith is no longer part of the gang and is not seen again for several episodes.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Past Winners Database: 1998-1999 51st Emmy Awards". The Envelope: The Ultimate Awards Site (Los Angeles Times). Archived from the original on 2006-05-19. Retrieved 2006-10-30.
2.Jump up ^ http://www.buffyguide.com/episodes/loverswalk.shtml#music
3.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0004915/bio
4.Jump up ^ http://www.bluntinstrument.org.uk/beck/buffy/3-08/loverswalk.htm
External links[edit]
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"Lovers Walk" at the Internet Movie Database
"Lovers Walk" at TV.com


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"The Wish"
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In the alternate universe, vampires Willow and Xander kill Cordelia

Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 9
Directed by
David Greenwalt
Written by
Marti Noxon
Production code
3ABB09
Original air date
December 8, 1998
Guest actors

Mark Metcalf as The Master
Emma Caulfield as Anya/Anyanka
Larry Bagby III as Larry Blaisdell
Mercedes McNab as Harmony Kendall
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
Nicole Bilderback as Cordette #1
Nathan Anderson as John Lee
Mariah O'Brien as Nancy
Gary Imhoff as Teacher
Robert Covarrubias as Caretaker

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"The Wish" is the ninth episode of season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Continuity 2.1 Arc significance
3 See also
4 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Following Xander and Willow's kiss in "Lovers Walk", Oz has called a time-out on his relationship with Willow and Cordelia is decidedly avoiding any contact with Xander. Cordelia returns to school only to be rejected by Harmony and her former clique, taunted as "Xander's castoff". Cordelia goes to The Bronze that night and Buffy accidentally humiliates Cordelia further by knocking her into a pile of trash in front of her friends while fighting a vampire. Cordelia decides that Buffy is to blame for her predicament, as she never would have dated Xander if his association with Buffy hadn't made him marginally cooler. The next day, Anya - a new girl who has been trying to befriend Cordelia - gives Cordelia an amulet while goading Cordelia into wishing something bad would happen to Xander. But Cordelia keeps talking about how things would have been better without Buffy, and then wishes that Buffy Summers had never come to Sunnydale. Anya immediately switches to vengeance demon form, that of Anyanka, and grants the wish.
Cordelia is delighted to find herself in a Buffy-free Sunnydale. She is once again the most popular girl in school, her Cordettes are at her beck and call, and handsome jock John Lee wants to date her. However, her happiness is short lived when she realises that the town is overrun by vampires, since Buffy was never there to prevent the success of The Harvest and The Master has risen and created a vast army of vampires, which terrorize the surviving humans. Most of the student bodies are either dead or vampires and there is a nighttime curfew. Bright garments are banned, because they attract vampires, and the lockers are festooned with garlic. Cordelia quickly loses her cool when she finds out that Willow and Xander are dead. Walking through the streets at night she meets Xander and Willow – now aggressive, capricious vampires. Cordy is saved by "The White Hats," a group of human vampire-fighters led by Giles including Oz, Larry, and a girl named Nancy.
Cordelia tries to explain to Giles what happened and asks to have Buffy back so that things could be the way they were; but, before she can elaborate, she is killed by Xander and Willow, whom The Master had sent as assassins, fearing that Cordelia would summon The Slayer to Sunnydale. The Master is very pleased and Willow gains permission to play with the "Puppy" for a while. As she enters the cell and rolls the prisoner over, we see that the "Puppy" is Angel. She cheerfully begins torturing him with matches while Xander watches.
Giles calls Buffy's contacts in Cleveland but is able only to leave a message for the otherwise very busy Slayer. He learns that the amulet Cordelia was wearing is that of Anyanka's, the vengeance demon of scorned and wronged women, whose granted wishes can be undone only if her center of power is destroyed.
The Master has created machinery to industrialize harvesting of blood from captive humans, eliminating vampires' need to hunt for food. Giles, on his way home, is nearly captured by vampires who are herding humans for the plant; he is rescued by Buffy, the Slayer, who in this reality is cold and cynical, resembling Faith. She doubts that Giles can reverse Anya's spell, but does offer to kill the Master while she is in town. Buffy finds Angel imprisoned; when she sees that he is a vampire, she initially rejects his help, but the marks of torture persuade her that he is no friend of the Master.
The Master starts up the plant with the first human victim before a cage of prisoners, including Oz and Larry. Buffy and Angel attack the vampires. Xander kills Angel; Buffy kills Xander; Oz kills Willow; The Master breaks Buffy's neck.
Meanwhile, Giles uses a spell to summon Anyanka to his house, who confirms Cordelia's story. Giles soon guesses that Anyanka's own amulet is the center of her powers; he tears it from her neck and prepares to smash it. In a last-ditch attempt to distract him, Anyanka asks how he can be sure the real world is a better one. Giles replies with hope, "Because it has to be." He breaks the power center and reverses the spell.
The original reality is immediately restored, at the moment of Cordelia's wish. As before, Anyanka triumphantly says "Done!" but finds to her dismay and confusion that she is now a powerless human.
Continuity[edit]
Even in the alternate reality, the prophecy contained in the Pergamum Codex (as referenced in "Prophecy Girl") comes to pass: "The Master will rise and the Slayer will die."
Arc significance[edit]
This is Anya's first appearance. She will be an important/main character in the rest of the series.
The alternate reality of The Wish will be revisited in Doppelgangland, an episode centering on Willow and her vampire counterpart.
See also[edit]
Butterfly effect
External links[edit]
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"The Wish" at BuffyGuide.com


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"Amends"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 10
Directed by
Joss Whedon
Written by
Joss Whedon
Production code
3ABB10
Original air date
December 15, 1998
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Saverio Guerra as Willy the Snitch
Shane Barach as Daniel
Edward Edwards as Travis
Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy as Margaret
Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane
Robia LaMorte as The First/Jenny Calendar
Mark Kriski as Weatherman
Tom Michael Bailey Smith as Tree Seller Guy

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"Amends" is episode 10 of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Continuity 2.1 Arc significance
2.2 Promo synopsis
2.3 Promo offer
2.4 Promo continuity
3 External links
4 References

Plot synopsis[edit]
It's Christmas in Sunnydale and Angel is haunted with dreams of the people he murdered over the years as Angelus. When Buffy starts getting dragged into his memory-nightmares, experiencing Angel's dreams also, they realize something not natural is happening. Visions of his past victims, including Jenny Calendar, appear to him and try to get him to kill Buffy, saying that he will be released from the pain if he does so. Angel cannot bring himself to do this, so instead he opts to kill himself by standing on a hill and waiting for the sun to come up. Meanwhile Oz tells Willow he's willing to give their relationship another chance while Cordelia isn't as forgiving and resumes her previously hostile ways towards the Scooby gang.
Buffy and Giles figure out The First Evil has been driving Angel insane. Buffy finds the Bringers and pummels them. After the First appears to her, informing her that she can't possibly fight it and that Angel is about to be destroyed by the dawn's light, she runs to his mansion to stop him.
Oz goes to Willow's house to watch videos only to find her dressed up and playing Barry White music, intending to sleep with him. Oz appreciates the gesture, but explains to Willow that he wants their first time to be special rather than just a way for her to try to make things up to him.
Buffy finds Angel atop the hill behind the mansion, awaiting sunrise. However, the heatwave from which Sunnydale has been suffering abruptly ends and the first flakes of snow start to fall. With the weather report saying the sun shouldn't be expected to be seen at all today, Buffy and Angel take a walk through the town.
Continuity[edit]
The area where Angel attempts suicide is the very same area where a corrupted Willow will attempt to trigger an apocalypse in "Grave," where it is finally named as Kingman's Bluff.
Oz refusing to sleep with Willow in this episode recalls his declining her offer to make out in "Innocence". Oz demonstrates again that he does not like doing things that he may want to do for the wrong reason. In this episode, Oz understands that Willow offers to sleep with him to show him that she is invested in their newly reestablished relationship, whereas in "Innocence", he believes she asks him to kiss her (largely) to make Xander jealous.
Joyce continues to be awkward around even the mention of Giles, thus reminding the viewer of their psychologically youthful indiscretions in "Band Candy".
Oz asks Willow if she ever had the dream "where you're in a play, and you're right in the middle of it and you kinda don't know your lines or the plot?" Willow has had this dream, or rather nightmare, as seen the episode "Nightmares", and it became a reality for her in the episode "The Puppet Show". Willow would have this nightmare again during the episode "Restless".
While it is later made clear in Season Seven that The First cannot touch anything, The First as Jenny Calendar touches Angel and, while the touch is brief, his hair visibly moves.
When Cordelia mentions Xander's family's "drunken Christmas fights", this is the first real hint in the series of Xander's unhappy home life, which is something that will be expanded on later in the series and become very significant in Season Six. Furthermore, Xander is explaining his "Christmas Tradition" to Willow, and it is Cordelia who remarks about his family's "drunken Christmas fights." Whedon himself claimed this to be an error in writing, as Willow and Xander have been best friends since childhood, and she already knows all about the Harris family.
As The First is trying to manipulate Angel into drinking Buffy, it accurately says that Angel will indeed drink from Buffy, which happens later in the season after Angel is poisoned by Faith.
Arc significance[edit]
This is the first appearance of the First Evil and the Bringers, who will not appear again until "Lessons", when it returns as the Big Bad of Season Seven.
Buffy and Angel renew their relationship.
The First tells Angel, "Sooner or later, you will drink her." This prediction comes true in "Graduation Day, Part Two".
Oz forgives Willow for her affair with Xander, and they continue their relationship.
The First tries to convince Angel to kill Buffy. This could be construed as an early attempt to disrupt the slayer line with Buffy's death, and start its plan that eventually takes place in Season Seven.
Since The First's plan to use Angel to kill Buffy failed, it won't appear again until season seven, where it continues to try to have Buffy killed, this time using Spike.
When Angel intends suicide to prevent his ever harming anyone else, Buffy argues with him, telling him that if he dies now, he'll never be anything more than a monster. The only way he can make amends for all the evil that he's done is to stay alive and do good. This will become one of the main themes of the eventual spin off show.
The snowstorm can be seen as a direct interference of The Powers That Be in the Buffyverse. Despite The First's claims, The Powers are also responsible for Angel's returns from Hell.[1] They will continue to help Angel throughout his own spinoff.
Promo synopsis[edit]
Buffy is standing outside at a phone booth. Strangely, it appears to be snowing in Sunnydale. Buffy says "This season with 1-800-COLLECT, you don't have to be alone for the holidays." She then begins dialing the phone. Buffy hears footsteps behind her. She turns and grabs a stake-shaped icicle, and makes a staking motion before Angel grabs her hand. Angel: "Sorry I'm late." Buffy replies, "You should have called." The two smile, look into the snowing sky, then walk off together.
Promo offer[edit]
The promo was offering fans the chance to enter a sweepstakes every time they made a call using the 1-800-COLLECT communications system. The prize was a walk-on part on Buffy. Jessica Johnson of Maryland won a three-day trip for two to participate in the episode "The Prom", which aired later in the third season.
Promo continuity[edit]
The commercial would take place shortly after "Amends", since snow just started falling in Sunnydale at the end of the episode. It is clearly not part of the Buffyverse canon since both the narrator and Buffy actively break the fourth wall.
External links[edit]
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Where Do We Go from Here? A farewell to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and a look back at the show's ten best episodes
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Ruditis, Paul and Gallagher, Diana G. Angel: The Casefiles Vol. 2. p. 4.


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Gingerbread (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Gingerbread"
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Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 11
Directed by
James Whitmore, Jr.
Teleplay by
Jane Espenson
Story by
Jane Espenson
Thania St. John
Production code
3ABB11
Original air date
January 12, 1999
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Elizabeth Anne Allen as Amy Madison
Harry Groener as Mayor Richard Wilkins
Jordan Baker as Sheila Rosenberg
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder
Lindsay Taylor as Little Girl
Shawn Pyfrom as Little Boy
Blake Swendson as Michael
Grant Garrison as Roy
Roger Morrissey as Demon
Daniel Tamm as Mooster

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"Gingerbread" is episode 11 of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Continuity
3 Body Count
4 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
While on the nightly patrol, Buffy not only encounters a vampire, but her mother looking for some quality time and a chance to "share" in the slaying experience. As Buffy kills the vampire, Joyce discovers the bodies of two dead children in the park.
At school the next day, Buffy tells Giles that the crime should not go unpunished. She draws a symbol which was found on the hands of the two children. He says it's probably occult-related, but Buffy cannot quite believe that a human being could do this.
At lunch, Willow and Amy sit with Xander and Oz—who exchange a few awkward words. Buffy joins them and fills them in on the murders. Joyce shows up at school and announces that she has spread the word about the murders to all her friends, and that there will be a vigil at City Hall that night.
Many concerned parents attend the vigil, including Willow's mother. Mayor Wilkins says a few words before handing the mic over to Mrs. Summers. She gives a speech about how the people of Sunnydale must take back their city from the monsters, and witches, and Slayers.
Later, Michael, Amy, and Willow—three witches—are shown performing a spell in a circle that surrounds the symbol Buffy found on the children's hands. The next day, Michael is shoved up against his locker by another student who threatens both him and Amy. Buffy makes a brief appearance and the "big, tough" guys go running. Cordelia, having witnessed the whole incident, comments to Buffy about involving oneself with losers.
Buffy goes to Willow, who has a book Giles needs for researching the symbol. Buffy finds the book, and also finds the witch symbol in one of Willow's notebooks. Willow explains that the symbol is part of a protection spell for Buffy's upcoming birthday.
Meanwhile all the school lockers are searched for witch-related material, and Giles's occult books are seized by police. Amy and Willow are taken to Principal Snyder's office for questioning.
Willow goes home where her mother calmly tells her she's grounded. Willow flips out, unable to control her anger towards the fact that her mother does not believe that she's a witch.
At Buffy's home, Joyce – founder of Mothers Opposed to the Occult ("MOO") – forbids Buffy to see Willow anymore, takes credit for the locker searches and states that Buffy's Slaying does Sunnydale no good. This leads to Buffy angrily outing on patrol. The ghosts of two children appear to Joyce and tell that she has to hurt the "bad girls".
At the park, Buffy talks with Angel, who convinces her not to give up fighting. When he makes a passing remark about the children and their parents, Buffy is struck by the thought that the children's parents were never mentioned. She returns to the library to find Giles, Xander and Oz, where she realizes that none of them know anything at all about the two child victims. The only fact anyone knows about them is that they were found dead - yet MOO's publicity uses pictures of them alive. Buffy and the others quickly realise that there is absolutely no information regarding the children's names, their families, or where they lived. After using the Internet to contact Willow, the Scooby Gang learn that every fifty years throughout history, the murdered bodies of two nameless children have been found. The earliest record dating from Germany during 1649, where a cleric from the Black Forest discovered the corpses of "Hans and Greta Strauss", inspiring the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel. Giles explains that certain demons thrive on watching humans destroy each other through persecution and ignorance. This demon assumes the form of the murdered boy and girl, and returns every fifty years to persuade a town to kill the "bad girls" – innocents accused as witches, and thus peaceful communities are torn apart through vigilante madness. According to Giles, this is what set off the Salem Witch Trials.
Amy, Willow, and Buffy are taken by force to City Hall where they are tied to wooden posts, atop a pile of books. Xander and Oz get to Willow's room to discover her gone and her room in a shambles. Cordelia finds Giles unconscious at the Summers' home, wakes him and they rush to City Hall. Just as Buffy wakes up, her mother lights books on fire, sentencing the three girls to death by burning at the stake. Amy escapes by transforming herself into a rat (as she had once done to Buffy).
On the way to City Hall, Giles practices an incantation while Cordelia prepares a concoction to force the demon to show its real self. Oz and Xander climb through the air vents in the hope of saving their friends. Giles and Cordelia break into the room while the parents watch the growing fire, and Cordelia uses a fire hose to put the fire out. As the demon—now in its true, ugly form—goes for Buffy, she breaks the stake she was tied to and impales the creature with it. Everyone is safe, and the demon is dead. Moments after, the vents give way, and Xander and Oz fall to the ground. Taking in the wreckage, Oz lamely says "We're here to save you."
The next day, none of the parents remember much of the recent events. Buffy and Willow are performing a spell in Willow's room to restore Amy, but it fails and Buffy suggests, "Maybe we should get her one of those wheel thingies."
Continuity[edit]
This is the first and only time that Willow's mother, Sheila Rosenberg, is shown.
Angel and Buffy philosophically discuss why they fight, reactively defeating evil threats that never stop coming. This theme is prominent in the spin-off series Angel.
Amy Madison turns herself into a rat to escape the stake; she will be restored again by Willow in a brief moment in the episode "Something Blue," before being turned into a rat again, and then fully restored two years later in the Season Six episode "Smashed."
Cordelia helps Buffy and Willow avoid being burned at the stake, marking the beginning of her re-alliance with the Scooby Gang which will continue, albeit tempestuously, for the remainder of the season.
Joyce and Giles are still very embarrassed when together since their teenage "behaviour" in "Band Candy", as their awkward discussion shows while the group is at the "MOO" conference.
The fact that Giles knows how to pick a door's lock is another hint about his tempestuous youth, as Cordelia noticed: "God, you really were the little youthful offender, weren't you? You must just look back on that and cringe.".
When Cordelia finds Giles at Buffy's house and awakens him, she says, "I swear, one of these times, you're going to wake up in a coma," a sentiment which foreshadows her later experience during Season Five of Angel, in "You're Welcome."
Body Count[edit]
Vampire - Stabbed by Buffy with a stake
Demon - Stabbed through the head by Buffy with the stake she is tied to
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Helpless (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Helpless"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Giles cleans Buffy's wound after being fired as her Watcher

Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 12
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
David Fury
Production code
3ABB12
Original air date
January 19, 1999
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Jeff Kober as Zachary Kralik
Harris Yulin as Quentin Travers
Dominic Keating as Blair
David Haydn-Jones as Hobson
Nick Cornish as Guy
Don Dowe as Construction Worker

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"Helpless" is the twelfth episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Production details
3 References
4 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Buffy and Angel spar until Buffy pins him and holds a breadstick to his heart. They talk, and Buffy reveals her plans to go to an ice show with her father for her 18th birthday. That night in the library, Giles is quizzing her on crystals and having her concentrate on staring at them, a practice known as Crystal gazing. Later, on patrol, Buffy's strength suddenly deserts her and she is nearly killed by a vampire with her own stake.
Buffy's worried about her powers, and talks to Giles about it while trying to throw knives at a target but missing terribly. Meanwhile, Quentin Travers, the head Watcher, is setting up a "test" for the Slayer, assisted by two men named Hobson and Blair. She is to be locked in a building, without any powers, and defeat Zachary Kralik, a powerful and insane vampire. Giles urges Travers to stop the test, but it does no good. At home, Buffy is disappointed to find that her father can't come and take her to the ice show for her birthday. While she tries to get Giles to take her to the ice show, Giles has Buffy stare into a crystal where she then falls into a trance. He injects her with a mysterious substance in a syringe.
After Cordelia fights off an aggressive suitor who had knocked Buffy down, Buffy really begins to worry, and enlists the help of her friends to figure out what's wrong. Buffy visits Angel and he gives her a book for her birthday (Sonnets From the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning). She tries to sound enthusiastic about it, but losing her powers has really begun to bother her. He tells her about how he saw her before she was the Slayer and how he loved her from the second he first saw her. Kralik has the chance to break out of his strait jacket while Blair is getting his pills and water. He then turns Blair into a vampire and when he wakes up, he completely frees Kralik from his restraints.
Giles goes to find Quentin at the Sunnydale Arms building, but instead finds Kralik missing and Hobson dead. Buffy, walking home alone, is confronted by two apparently drunk men looking for a lap dance and then by Kralik. Blair chases her until Giles drives by and picks her up. At the Summers' home, Joyce hears a noise out front and goes to check it out where she then finds Kralik wrapped up in Buffy's jacket. Giles tells Buffy that she's lost her strength due to the injections of muscle relaxant he'd been giving her, and about the rite of passage. Buffy is very angry and tells him she doesn't know him anymore, and he should stay away from her. Cordelia shows up and drives Buffy home, where she then finds a picture of her mother in the hands of Kralik, tied to a chair and gagged.
Buffy goes to the Sunnydale Arms building, beats Blair into unconsciousness and then is chased by Kralik until his need for his pills becomes unbearable. Buffy steals them away, and slides down a laundry chute where she finds her mother tied to a chair and gagged. Kralik breaks through the door and grabs his pills from Buffy, washing them down with a nearby glass – which Buffy had filled with holy water, causing him to burn from within. With Kralik destroyed, Buffy frees her mother. Giles arrives and stakes Blair.
Back at the library, Quentin congratulates Buffy on her accomplishment, and then Buffy tells Quentin that he better be gone by the time she gets her powers back. Quentin tells Giles that he's fired because he's grown too close with the Slayer; his relationship with her is as more of a father than a Watcher. He tells Buffy that a new Watcher will be assigned to her and warns Giles not to interfere before finally leaving. Buffy, grateful that Giles lost his job for her, allows him to tend her wounds. The next day, Buffy celebrates her birthday with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and her close friends. When Buffy, minus her strength, can't open the peanut butter jar, Xander offers to help, but he can't do it either.
Production details[edit]
This story had the working title "18" as it is set around Buffy's eighteenth birthday.[1]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Writer David Fury's commentary for the episode on the season 3 DVD
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The Zeppo
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"The Zeppo"
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Newly confident after his secret adventure, Xander is untouched by Cordelia's insults

Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 13
Directed by
James Whitmore, Jr.
Written by
Dan Vebber
Production code
3ABB13
Original air date
January 26, 1999
Guest actors

Saverio Guerra as Willy the Snitch
Channon Roe as Jack O'Toole
Michael Cudlitz as Bob
Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane
Darin Heames as Parker
Scott Torrence as Dickie
Whitney Dylan as Lysette
Vaughn Armstrong as Cop

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"The Zeppo" is episode 13 of season 3 on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup in a Series.[1] Feeling left out by the gang, Xander ends up accompanying a psychotic student named Jack O'Toole. Meanwhile, the rest of the gang are trying to stop an apocalypse.


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2 Production details 2.1 Writing
2.2 Cultural references
2.3 Arc significance
3 Reception and legacy
4 References
5 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
While the Scooby gang slaughters demons in an underground nest, Xander ends up getting hurt and buried by rubble. Buffy suggests he stay out of the fighting. Xander is desperate to find his place after his breakup with Cordelia and the alienation from his friends. When another student throws him a football, he misses and it hits Jack O'Toole's lunch, resulting in Jack threatening to beat him up. Cordelia, having witnessed the entire event, tells Xander he is useless and extraneous, since all of his friends are slayers, werewolves, witches, and watchers, while he is nothing. She tells him: "You're the Zeppo." Meanwhile, Giles informs Buffy that the end of the world is near. A group is planning to reopen the Hellmouth and bring forth the demons it contains.
After a discussion with Oz about what makes someone cool, Xander gets himself a car that he believes will give him something unique. While getting doughnuts for the rest of the researching gang, Xander meets Lysette, who likes his car and wants to go for a ride. As it turns out, the car really is the only thing she's interested in. At The Bronze that night, Xander rear-ends Jack sitting in a parked car. Jack threatens Xander with a knife. A cop shows up, Xander covers for Jack and the two and Lysette leave to go get the rest of Jack's friends - who, being dead, need to be raised from their graves.
At the library, Buffy, Willow and Giles are researching, while Oz - in werewolf mode - is freaking out in his cage. Willow thinks it's because he can sense trouble. Giles leaves to try and contact some spirits and hopefully get their help with stopping the Sisterhood of Jhe, a group of fierce demons (of the same sort as the ones that the gang killed in the cave a few days before) that plans to end the world.
Xander, drafted as "wheelman", takes Jack and his friends to get supplies to "bake a cake." While the dead boys are getting the supplies by breaking into a hardware store, Xander spots Willow leaving the magic shop and tries to talk to her, but she hurries off to go help Buffy. When Jack and friends decide to initiate Xander into their club by killing him and then raising him again, he runs and escapes in his car. He rescues Faith, who was fighting off a demon, by hitting the demon with his car. He takes her to her motel room where she seduces him. She then kicks him out, clothes in hand, quickly after.
Meanwhile, back at the library, Willow and Giles, struggle to get Werewolf-Oz away from the Hellmouth, which will soon be opening. They sedate him and lock him in the basement.
Xander, finding supplies in the car that indicate Jack and his friends have built a bomb at Sunnydale High, is unsure what to do. He seeks out Buffy, who is having an emotional encounter with Angel, who is set on risking his life to defeat the demons. He realizes they don't have time to help him, so he takes action: he finds the gang and drags one of them with his car until he confesses the bomb is in the school basement. He heads towards the school to stop it. There, he walks past the apocalyptic events that the Scooby gang is fighting in the Library, and heads to the boiler room. Jack shows up, and they fight. The fight is inconclusive, but Xander is able to position himself between Jack and the exit door such that he can delay Jack's exit enough so that Jack has no hope of escaping before the bomb explodes. Xander asks Jack who is more afraid of death. Jack points out that he's already dead, but Xander responds that "'walking around drinking beer with your buddies'-dead is a lot different from 'being blown up and swept up by a janitor'-dead". When Jack confronts Xander about dying, Xander merely remarks, "I like the quiet" and stares at him calmly. Jack defuses the bomb with seconds to spare. Jack turns to leave, swearing revenge. He then opens a side door, releasing werewolf-Oz, who immediately attacks him. Meanwhile, Buffy, Angel, Faith, Giles and Willow are at the library fending off the giant multi-headed monster and the members of the group of female demons. They succeed in closing the Hellmouth.
The next day, everyone comes to school as usual as if nothing had happened. The slightly bruised Buffy, Willow, Giles, and Oz sit at a table reeling at how close the world came to an end the night before. Oz, despite knowing he was locked up as a werewolf, cannot understand why his stomach feels "oddly full". Just then, Xander comes by to chat with them. After a few seconds of talk, Xander decides to keep his harrowing night to himself. As Xander walks away, he runs into Cordelia, who once again taunts him as before, but Xander, newly confident, merely smiles and walks by.
Production details[edit]
Writing[edit]
"The Zeppo" is a twist on the show format, which normally consists of an action-packed "A-story" and a character-development "B-story". Here, Xander's feelings of inadequacy develop into the A-story while a stereotypical epic episode of Buffy and the others saving the world is pushed to the background to become the B. Most of the apocalypse story elements come across as background events, happening offscreen, only in small bits, or being talked about afterwards by the characters.
Cultural references[edit]
After Xander runs into Jack during lunch, Jack asks, in a calm but threatening manner, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'?". In an attempt to lighten the tension, Xander begins to sing that song.
Buffy reads that the Sisterhood of Jhe celebrate victory in battle by eating their foes, and comments in disgust, "They couldn't just pour Gatorade on each other?" referencing the tradition in athletic competitions to celebrate a victory by pouring buckets of the sports drink over the coach.
Both Xander and Cordelia compare Xander to Jimmy Olsen, another unappreciated sidekick (to Superman) without any special powers.
The title of the episode refers to Zeppo Marx, who was the straight man among the Marx Brothers and long considered to be the most unexceptional member of the act. Xander is treated in the same way in this episode.
When Xander finds the bomb in Sunnydale High he says "Hello Nasty", which is the name of an album by the Beastie Boys - the album features the song Putting Shame in Your Game, which is heard in this episode.
Arc significance[edit]
Xander loses his virginity to Faith, but the boost to his self-esteem is undermined by Buffy's statement about Faith in "Consequences".
The multi-headed monster is the same monster that attacked Giles, Willow, Cordelia and Jenny in the library when the Master's ascension opened the Hellmouth in "Prophecy Girl". The Master's death caused the monster to retreat back into the Hellmouth.
Although Xander will never acquire special powers, the importance of the emotional strength his support lends the group will be demonstrated by his assumption of the role of "Animus" (heart) in the superbeing created by merging the psyches of Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Giles in the season 4 episode "Primeval".
This episode, in addition the Season 5's "The Replacement," establishes that Xander is neither completely helpless nor useless. However, this episode illustrate how his usefulness is often overlooked by his peers.
Reception and legacy[edit]
Noel Murray of The A.V. Club wrote that "The Zeppo" had become a favorite episode of his, saying, "What I loved about 'The Zeppo' is how Xander's feelings of abandonment pervade the structure of the episode, which is filled with moments that are (intentionally) dramatically unsatisfying."[2] In Entertainment Weekly's list of the 25 best Whedonverse episodes—including episodes from Buffy, as well as Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse—"The Zeppo" placed at #23.[3] TV Squad's Keith McDuffee listed "The Zeppo" as the fifth best episode of the series.[4]
This episode has proved influential on later television writers. In his "Production Notes: Doodles in the Margins of Time" in 2007, Doctor Who executive producer Russell T Davies cites "The Zeppo" along with Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Lower Decks" as an influence on his 2006 Doctor Who episode "Love & Monsters".[5] The episode provided a television format which came to be known as the "Doctor-lite episode", an annual tradition for Doctor Who since 2006.[6]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Past Winners Database: 1998-1999 51st Emmy Awards". The Envelope: The Ultimate Awards Site (Los Angeles Times). Archived from the original on 2008-02-09. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
2.Jump up ^ Murray, Noel (26 June 2009). ""The Zeppo", etc". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
3.Jump up ^ Bernardin, Marc; Vary, Adam B. (24 September 2009). "25 Best Whedonverse Episodes". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
4.Jump up ^ McDuffee, Keith (24 October 2005). "The Five (by Five): Best episodes of Buffy". TV Squad. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
5.Jump up ^ "Review: Doctor Who 2x10 - Love and Monsters". The Medium is Not Enough. 2006-06-19. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
6.Jump up ^ "'Doctor-Light': The Doctorless 'Who' Stories". Digital Spy. 2008-06-22. Retrieved 2010-07-24.
External links[edit]
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"Bad Girls"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Faith examines the man she accidentally killed

Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 14
Directed by
Michael Lange
Written by
Doug Petrie
Production code
3ABB14
Original air date
February 9, 1999
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Harry Groener as Mayor Richard Wilkins
K. Todd Freeman as Mr. Trick
Jack Plotnick as Deputy Mayor Allan Finch
Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Christian Clemenson as Balthazar
Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane
Alex Skuby as Vincent
Wendy Clifford as Mrs. Taggert
Ron Rogge as Cop

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"Bad Girls" is episode 14 of season 3 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It is written by Doug Petrie and directed by Michael Lange, it was originally broadcast on February 9, 1999 on the WB network. In "Bad Girls", Buffy gets a new Watcher, and Faith lures Buffy into reckless abandon.


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1 Plot
2 Production 2.1 Writing
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 Cultural references
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
While patrolling, Faith asks Buffy if she's ever had sex with Xander -- with whom Faith herself had sex in the preceding episode—and Buffy says they're just friends. They slay a vampire wielding a short blade and long blade. However when they go to pick them up they find them gone. The blades have in fact been taken to the Mayor by Mr. Trick. They discuss their enjoyment of the cartoon strips Marmaduke and The Family Circus but are perturbed when Deputy Mayor Allan Finch reveals he likes to read Cathy. The next day at school, the gang is looking into colleges and they discuss future plans. Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, Buffy's stuffy new Watcher, annoys Giles in the library while both Slayers attempt to ignore him. Buffy is instructed to go retrieve an amulet that once belonged to a demon named Balthazar, who led a cult of swordsman vampires before he was killed. Faith expresses to Buffy her belief that as the Slayers, they can do what they want, and enjoy it. Buffy is skeptical, but Faith firmly believes Buffy gets off on slaying as much as she does.
That night, Buffy finds the amulet but a group of Balthazar's vampires enter before she can take it. Faith arrives and the two slay some of the vampires before retrieving the amulet. After handing over the amulet to Wesley, Buffy leaves to take a necessary chemistry test, but she can't stop talking through the whole test about the previous night and how much she ended up enjoying it. Faith shows up at the window and she and Buffy leave to destroy a vampire nest. The two go dancing afterwards at the Bronze where Buffy meets up with Angel. She's acting very strangely and he tries to ignore it and tells her that Balthazar isn't dead and he's looking for his amulet. When Wesley comes looking for Buffy, she takes the amulet from him and gives it to Angel.
Buffy and Faith go out and find Balthazar, an obese and ugly demon that must live in a large pool of water and constantly be kept wet. At a loss for weapons against a large group of vampires, they break into a sporting goods store and steal some. Faith continues to expound on her philosophy of being a Slayer to Buffy. "Life as a Slayer is very simple. Want. Take. Have." The police arrive and arrest them, but in the car, the two Slayers kick down the metal gate separating them from the cop, causing the car to crash and the cop to be injured. The following morning, Buffy checks the local newspaper for any news regarding the accident, but finds nothing. At his office, the Mayor is attacked by one of Balthazar's vampires, who is foiled by Mr. Trick and imprisoned.
Meanwhile, Balthazar demands his minions bring him the Watchers and kill the Slayers. No matter the cost, he must have his amulet. The enemy who crippled him is about to gain ultimate power and he refuses to let this come to pass.
Willow presents Buffy with a protection spell talisman and is ready to go slaying that night, but Buffy tells her that it's too dangerous and that she's going with Faith instead. This leaves Willow feeling hurt, with her amulet essentially rejected.
That evening, Buffy and Faith run into several vampires in a back alley and stake them. Allan, the deputy Mayor, suddenly walks out from the darkness and Faith, still in battle mode and presuming him to be another vampire, immediately stakes him as well before realizing her mistake. He dies before he can say anything, and both Slayers flee the scene of the crime in separate directions. Buffy runs into Angel and he tells her about Balthazar taking Giles while Faith returns to the scene where Allan is and just stares at the body.
With the two Watchers in his possession, Balthazar searches for answers as to who has his amulet. Wesley is cowardly willing to give up anything in exchange for his life, whereas Giles keeps his, admittedly cynical, calm. Angel shows up with Buffy, frees Giles and everyone fights. When Balthazar captures Angel, Buffy tosses a live wire into his tub of water, electrocuting him. With his dying breath, Balthazar warns them of his enemy. "When he rises, you'll wish I'd killed you all."
In his office that night, the Mayor performs a ritual in front of Mr. Trick and the captured vampire. Once it is finished, the Mayor orders that the vampire has his weapon returned to him and be released. Mr. Trick is confused, but does as he's told and releases the vampire. The vampire immediately attacks the Mayor by slicing his head in half... however the head promptly repairs itself with no ill effect on the Mayor and Mr. Trick stakes the surprised vampire. The Mayor tells his right-hand man that the hundred days before the Ascension has begun and that during that period he is completely invincible.
The next morning, Buffy confronts Faith in her motel room about Allan's death but Faith doesn't want to talk about it. In the ensuing argument, Faith nonchalantly declares that she does not care that she killed a human being, much to Buffy's horror.
Production[edit]
Alexis Denisof met Alyson Hannigan as a result of being cast as Wesley, and the two married on October 11, 2003. Denisof's role on Buffy would also lead him to become a regular cast member on the spin-off, Angel.
Writing[edit]
After Faith accidentally kills Allan, Buffy finds her in her hotel room obsessively scrubbing his blood from her shirt. As Richardson and Rabb note, this scene is reminiscent of Lady Macbeth’s "equally futile attempt to wash away guilt by washing away its physical signs." When Buffy reminds Faith that "you can shut off all the emotions that you want... but eventually, they’re gonna find a body," she is referring to the authorities’ finding Allan’s body; however the ambiguous grammar suggests that it is Faith's emotions of guilt and shame that will eventually find a body as well.[1]
Continuity[edit]
Faith follows Angel as a character who fights on Buffy's side but later turns into a villain. While Angel's turn was sudden and caused by his curse, Faith's transformation is more gradual; the seeds were planted in her first appearance.
When Buffy is attacked by the vampire while in the graveyard, Faith stakes it from behind. She will do this again in Season 4's episode "Who Are You," but Buffy was in Faith's body at the time.
Faith steals a long green compound bow, idly commenting that "this could be my new thing". Although her attempts to use it in this episode are inept, she does indeed become an ace, and ultimately uses the bow to infect Angel in "Graduation Day (Part 1)."
Buffy's instantly antagonistic relationship with Wesley recalls her first meeting with Giles, highlighting how far they have come.



Arc significance[edit]
This episode is the major turning point of season three. Faith has been a loose cannon with issues of trust and she enjoys slaying a little too much, but she has been fighting for the right cause. The emotional blow to her of killing a human is a major step in her turning to the other side.
Willow gives Buffy the protection spell she has been working on since "Gingerbread" in a lavender-scented pouch.
This episode marks the first appearance of Wesley Wyndam-Pryce who goes on to become a prominent member of Angel Investigations in L.A.
Cultural references[edit]
When the two Watchers are in front of Balthazar, Giles says, speaking about Wesley : "Look, tell you what, let Captain Courageous here go, and I'll tell you what you need to know.". This is a reference to 1897 novel Captains Courageous, by Kipling.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Richardson, J. Michael; Rabb, J. Douglas (2007), "Buffy, Faith and Bad Faith: Choosing to be the Chosen One", Slayage 23, retrieved 2007-07-26
External links[edit]
"Bad Girls" at the Internet Movie Database
"Bad Girls" at TV.com


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Consequences (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Consequences"
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Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 15
Directed by
Michael Gershman
Written by
Marti Noxon
Production code
3ABB15
Original air date
February 16, 1999
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Harry Groener as Mayor Richard Wilkins
K. Todd Freeman as Mr. Trick
Jack Plotnick as Deputy Mayor Allan Finch
Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
James G. MacDonald as Detective Stein
Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane
Amy Powell as TV News Reporter
Patricia Place as Woman

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"Consequences" is the 15th episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot
2 Production
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 Cultural references
5 External links

Plot[edit]
Faith's plan to hide her accidental murder in the last episode fails when Finch's body is quickly found. Wesley Wyndam-Pryce orders her and Buffy to investigate and see if anything supernatural was involved. Privately, Faith asks if Buffy is going to turn her in, and Buffy isn't sure. Buffy and Faith sneak into City Hall to try to find out what Finch was doing in the alleyway in the first place; although all of his papers have been shredded, they do learn that the Mayor is in league with Mr. Trick.
After some deep thinking, and talking with Willow about it, she decides to tell Giles what happened, only to discover that Faith has already told him that Buffy was the killer. Luckily, Giles easily sees through the lie, though he lets Faith think he believes her so the gang can keep closer tabs on her and get her off the slippery slope she is on. Giles explains to Buffy what will happen when mistakes with human murder occurs and that Faith is in denial about the murder. Wesley sees them talking and calls the Watcher Council.
During a meeting of the gang, Xander tells the others that he slept with Faith. Buffy and Giles are openly surprised; Willow tries to play down her reaction but ends up crying alone in the bathroom. Buffy expresses her worry about Faith and the need to deal with the problem now. Xander is asked to help Giles and Willow with the research that needs to be done on the Mayor and Mr. Trick.
Xander tries to reason with Faith, only to have her try to kill him. She repeats her favorite saying, "I see, I want, I take." Xander is eventually rescued by Angel, who tries his own brand of reasoning and seems to be making progress. The Mayor and Mr. Trick are seen talking about Buffy and Faith's break in of the City Hall. The Mayor says that the slayers both have to be taken care of and quickly and that there isn't enough evidence against them to put them in jail.
Unfortunately, Wesley learns what happened and follows Watcher Council procedure. Accompanied by others with crosses and nets, Wesley attacks Angel and yanks Faith away for trial in England. She quickly escapes, and plans to hop a boat out of Sunnydale. Because of the arrest and the escape, Wesley receives very hostile attitudes from the gang. Buffy finds her, and they start to fight as she tries to reason with Faith. Their meeting is interrupted by several vampires led by Mr. Trick. As he is about to bite Buffy, Faith stakes him and saves her. Unlike most vampires, Mr. Trick says, "Oh no, this is no good at all," after Faith stakes him. Buffy returns to the library, sure now that there is still good in Faith. However, in the final scene Faith offers her services to the Mayor.
Production[edit]
Although credited, Seth Green does not appear in this episode. This is the only Season Three episode Oz does not appear in.
Continuity[edit]
Finch's death causes the third murder investigation involving Buffy in less than two years: she was previously suspected in the deaths of fellow Slayer Kendra and her would-be stepfather, the robot Ted. Each investigation is headed by Detective James Stein (played by James MacDonald).
Arc significance[edit]
Angel seems to be able to get through to Faith, a theme that will be picked up much later when the two meet in Los Angeles ("Five by Five"/"Sanctuary").
The events of this episode are one of the primary reasons Wesley is eventually dismissed from the Watcher's Council.
The video of the Mayor and Mr. Trick provides the Scoobies with their first concrete evidence that the Mayor is not what he seems and will become a problem.
The events of this episode mark Faith's first conscious, definitive break from the good side.
Willow keeps on trying to reverse Amy's spell that has changed her into a rat in "Gingerbread", without success.
Cultural references[edit]
Buffy describes Faith's inappropriate good cheer with the phrase "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", the title of an optimistic song in the movie Song of the South.
External links[edit]
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Doppelgangland
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"Doppelgangland"
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Vampire Willow (from "The Wish") captures Willow

Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 16
Directed by
Joss Whedon
Written by
Joss Whedon
Production code
3ABB16
Original air date
February 23, 1999
Guest actors

Harry Groener as Mayor Richard Wilkins
Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Emma Caulfield as Anya
Ethan Erickson as Percy West
Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder
Jason Hall as Devon MacLeish
Michael Nagy as Alfonse
Andy Umberger as D'Hoffryn
Megan Gray as Sandy
Norma Michaels as Older Woman
Corey Michael Blake as Waiter
Jennifer Nicole as Body-Double Willow

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"Doppelgangland" is the sixteenth episode of the third season of the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003). It was written and directed by the show's creator, Joss Whedon, and originally aired on The WB Television Network in the United States on February 23, 1999. The episode's title is derived from the term "Doppelgänger", a German word for a look-alike or double of a living person.
The premise of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is that an adolescent girl, Buffy Summers, is chosen by mystical forces and given superhuman powers to kill vampires, demons, and other evil creatures in the fictional town of Sunnydale. She is supported by a close circle of family and friends, nicknamed the Scooby Gang. "Doppelgangland" revisits the alternate reality created in the ninth episode of the third season, "The Wish", in which Buffy never arrived in Sunnydale and vampires ruled the city. In "Doppelgangland", when Anya, a vengeance demon who previously granted the wish, attempts a spell to regain her powers, it pulls the alternate universe's Willow (Alyson Hannigan)—an evil vampire—into the current world and inevitably face-to-face with her human counterpart.
Although Buffy centered around its titular character, "Doppelgangland" primarily focused on the character Willow, much like the season three episode "The Zeppo" focused on the character Xander.[1] The episode was highly praised by the media and critics upon its airing, and it is widely considered to be one of the best episodes in the series.


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2 Plot
3 Writing 3.1 Production
3.2 Continuity
4 Reception
5 References
6 Bibliography
7 External links

Background[edit]



 This episode marked the second appearance of Anya, who was portrayed by Emma Caulfield.[1]
In the show, Buffy Summers is a teenager who, at the age of fifteen, was chosen by mystical forces to be the latest Slayer, a girl endowed with superhuman powers to fight and defeat vampires, demons, and other evil forces. After moving to the fictional town of Sunnydale, she befriends Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendon), who join her in the struggle against evil. They are guided by Buffy's Watcher, Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head), who is well-versed in demonology and is responsible for Buffy's training as a Slayer. During season two, Willow begins to experiment with magic, eventually becoming a formidable witch.
In the third season, Buffy returns to Sunnydale after attempting a new start in Los Angeles. However, she struggles to regain her old life. Willow and Xander address and act on their mutual attraction. After a vampire named Spike captures the two, Willow and Xander share a kiss that Oz (Seth Green) and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter), their respective significant others, witness. Upon the arrival of a vengeance demon named "Anya", Cordelia makes a wish that Buffy had never arrived in Sunnydale, creating an alternate reality in which vampires rule the city. After Giles destroys her amulet, Anya loses her powers and the previous state of Sunnydale is restored.
According to Buffy scholar Roz Kaveney, episodes in the third season address various forms of betrayal.[2]
Plot[edit]
Anya unsuccessfully entreats D'Hoffryn to restore her demonic powers.
Principal Snyder browbeats Willow into tutoring basketball star Percy West. At Giles's request, Willow hacks into Mayor Wilkins's files; when Faith finds out, she alerts him of the intrusion. Wilkins presents Faith with a fully furnished apartment and then tells her he plans to have Willow killed.
Percy makes it clear that his idea of "tutoring" is that Willow should do his homework, and Willow does not correct him. Frustrated and unhappy, Willow then quarrels with Buffy and Xander and storms away. Willow assists Anya with a spell, but their conjuration goes awry, summoning "Vamp Willow" from "The Wish" rather than retrieving the magic amulet Anya sought. Neither Anya nor Willow realizes the consequences of their spell.
Vampire Willow goes to the Bronze, where she fights with Percy, throwing him across the pool table, and shows her vampire face to Xander and Buffy. Two vampires sent by the Mayor attack her, but she turns them to her side. Buffy and Xander tell Giles that Willow has been killed and turned vampiric, but the genuine Willow arrives to demonstrate their error.
Angel and Anya drop into the Bronze. Vampire Willow and her new minions arrive and capture the crowd. Angel escapes to find Buffy. Anya recognizes what has happened, offers to restore Vampire Willow to her own world in return for help in retrieving her amulet, and suggests capturing the other Willow to assist in the spell. Angel, Buffy and Xander head for the Bronze, but Willow, turning back to get the tranquilizer gun, is captured by her doppelganger. Willow shoots the vampire; the others arrive back in the library. They lock the unconscious vampire in the library cage, and Willow exchanges clothes with her in an attempt to pass herself off as Vamp Willow. They return to the Bronze.
Cordelia arrives at the library and unwittingly releases Vampire Willow, who immediately attacks her, but Wesley intervenes and drives the vampire away. At the Bronze, although Anya exposes Willow's disguise, Buffy defeats the other vampires, then captures the returning doppelganger. Anya returns vampiric Willow to her own timeline, where the alternate Oz immediately kills her. The next day, Percy, thoroughly intimidated by Willow's doppelganger (and believing she was the real Willow), shows up for tutoring with all his work completed and makes it clear he intends to please her from now on.
Writing[edit]
Production[edit]
Series creator Joss Whedon liked the character of "Vamp Willow", who was first introduced in "The Wish", so much that he wrote an episode specifically for her.[3]
Continuity[edit]
Megan Gray, who plays the girl being bit by Vamp Willow at the Bronze in this episode, was later cast as a vampire named Sandy in Season 5 episodes "Family" and "Shadow," leading fans' speculations that Vamp Willow has sired her character. "Family" was also written and directed by Joss Whedon.
Despite Buffy's belief that vampires' personalities are different than their human predecessors', Angel has implied that the demons takeover all of their attributes and qualities, thus representing the human predecessors' hidden and darkest nature. It is later subsequently confirmed when Willow coming out during Season 5, and later suffers a temporary insanity and becomes "Dark Willow" after Tara Maclay's death near the end of Season 6, exhibiting negative attributes and qualities similar to Vamp Willow's demonic nature.
Reception[edit]
When the episode was originally broadcast in the United States on February 23, 1999, it received a Nielsen rating of 4.1, meaning more than 4 million people watched it.[4] The episode placed 84th out of 121 broadcast television shows for the week it aired.[4] "Doppelgangland" was also the second most-watched program of the week on the The WB Television Network.[3]
"Doppelgangland" received high praise from critics. When Noel Murray from The A.V. Club reviewed the episode in 2009, after beginning his first look at the series in 2008, he commented that the episode "is terrific on myriad levels, from the dialogue to the plot twists to the multiple spot-on character moments. But mostly it’s a top-drawer episode for the way it binds the Buffyverse together, by demonstrating how adept the writing staff is at remembering everything they’ve done on the show before, and re-using the elements that still have plenty of juice in them."[1]
Many fans and critics consider the episode to be among the best in the Buffy catalogue. Daily Kos, an American political blog, ranked the episode at number eight in its list of the ten best episodes in the series.[5] Malinda Lo from AfterEllen.com included the episode in her top ten as well.[6] Series creator Joss Whedon has placed "Doppelgangland" fifth in his list of favorite episodes from the show, stating "one Willow is certainly not enough."[7] Alyson Hannigan, who portrays the character Willow, also considers the episode to be one of her favorites in the series.[8] According to TV.com, the episode holds an average score of 9.5/10, based on 658 compiled ratings.[9]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c Murray, Noel (July 3, 2009). "Doppelgangland". The A.V. Club. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
2.Jump up ^ Kaveney, pp. 19-20.
3.^ Jump up to: a b "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Doppelgangland". TVRage. 
4.^ Jump up to: a b "Doppelgängland". BuffyGuide.com. Retrieved December 4, 2011.
5.Jump up ^ "The 10 Best Buffy The Vampire Episodes". Daily Kos. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
6.Jump up ^ Lo, Malinda (April 12, 2007). "My Top 10 Buffy Episodes". AfterEllen.com. Retrieved December 4, 2011.
7.Jump up ^ "Show's creator takes a stab at 10 favorite episodes". USA Today. April 28, 2003. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
8.Jump up ^ Susman, Gary (October 19, 2005). "Alyson Hannigan's favorite 'Buffy' episodes". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
9.Jump up ^ "Doppelgangland". TV.com. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
Bibliography[edit]
Kaveney, Roz (ed.) (2004). Reading the Vampire Slayer: The New, Updated, Unofficial Guide to Buffy and Angel, Tauris Parke Paperbacks. ISBN 1-4175-2192-9
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Doppelgangland
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"Doppelgangland" at TV.com
"Doppelgangland" at the BBC
"Doppelgangland" at BuffyGuide.com


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Enemies (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Enemies"
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Faith and Buffy prepare to fight as it's revealed Faith is working for the Mayor

Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 17
Directed by
David Grossman
Written by
Doug Petrie
Production code
3ABB17
Original air date
March 16, 1999
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Harry Groener as Mayor Richard Wilkins
Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Michael Manasseri as Horned Demon Skyler
Gary Bullock as Sorcerer
Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane

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"Enemies" is the 17th episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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1 Plot synopsis
2 Cultural references
3 Continuity 3.1 Arc significance
4 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Buffy and Angel go to an erotic French movie. They both get worked up, then talk about how they can never act on what they're feeling.
Buffy and Faith meet a demon (named Skyler in the script, though his name is not spoken) who offers to sell "the Books of Ascension" for $5000. When Faith reports this to the Mayor, he asks her to kill the demon and take the books.
At the library, the Scooby Gang discusses "ascension" but they know very little about it until Willow suggests checking in a book which Giles was trying to hide from her due to its magical content.
Faith finds the demon, who is desperate to get out of Sunnydale before the Mayor's ascension, and kills him. She goes to Angel, saying she is upset over what she has become, and tries to seduce him so that he will lose his soul through happiness, but she cannot distract him from his devotion to Buffy. The Mayor therefore hires a mysterious cloaked sorcerer to take Angel's soul in the "most painful way imaginable."
Xander gets the demon's address from Willy; Buffy goes to find him, and Faith tags along. They find the demon dead and Buffy is worried by Faith's strange behavior about it. Buffy tells Willow that she saw Faith kiss Angel; Willow urges Buffy to talk to Angel about it.
Faith approaches Angel at his mansion, on the pretext of apologizing for her behavior the night before. She pours blood onto his shirt; the cloaked man then steps out of the shadows and chants a spell; lights flash and Angel yells as his soul is taken away. He pulls Faith to him and they kiss before Angelus starts beating her up. The two fight and Faith ends up on top, holding a stake to his heart. A truce is made as Angelus agrees to meet the Mayor and the two kiss.
Willow reports to the Scooby Gang that the Mayor's computer files were emptied before she was able to access them. With both Faith and Angel missing, Buffy leaves to find out what's going on with the Mayor while Wesley takes a very eager Cordelia and the rest of the group, minus Xander, to the Hall of Records to find information on the Mayor.
Faith takes Angelus to meet with the Mayor, and Angelus learns that the Mayor can't be killed. He tells the Mayor of his plans to torture and kill Buffy. Angelus and Faith walk to Buffy's house; on the way they meet Xander, whom Angelus knocks to the ground with a punch. Angelus and Faith lure Buffy to the mansion, where they reveal that they're fighting for the other side now. Angelus knocks Buffy out cold.
Buffy wakes up chained to a wall; Angelus and Faith plan to torture her. Faith talks about her painful childhood with a mother who drank too much, and her life as a Slayer living in Buffy's shadow. She reveals what she knows about the Mayor's master plan, which will culminate in his Ascension on graduation day.
Having learned all that Faith knows, Angel then reveals that his disensoulment was a sham and that he only pretended to be the evil Angelus. Buffy then shows that her hands were not really chained. The rest of the Scooby Gang arrive as Buffy and Faith fight and end up with knives at each other's throats. Telling Buffy that she can't kill her without becoming her, Faith breaks away and runs off.
At the library, Giles thanks and bids good-bye to the cloaked man, who faked the spell to repay an old favor: Giles had introduced him to his wife. Wesley is angry that Giles arranged this behind his back, and plans to tell the Watchers' Council about it. Now that everyone is fully aware of Faith's switch to Team Evil, they have to prepare to fight her as well.
Buffy and Angel are both shaken by what they had to do and Buffy says she needs a break from him. But as Buffy leaves Angel's mansion, he asks, "You still my girl?" and she responds, "Always."
Cultural references[edit]
Faith's line about "Kibbles 'n Bits" refers to the American brand of dog food.
Buffy says of Faith "She makes Godot look punctual," a reference to the Samuel Beckett play Waiting for Godot, in which the characters wait for a mysterious person who never arrives.
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
Faith's turn to the dark side becomes public knowledge by the end of this episode.
Wilkins shows again his strange father-daughter relationship with Faith when he asks Angel to bring her back before 11 o'clock. Faith reveals the deep resentment she has kept behind her happy-go-lucky face.
After meeting the nameless demon, Buffy allows him to depart unharmed rather than slaying him, noting that he seems harmless. This marks the widening of one of the Buffyverse's overall themes, that demons are capable of being benign whereas soulless vampires are not, a concept introduced in "Becoming, Part One" and explored more fully in the Angel spin-off.
A sorcerer very similar to the cloaked man in appearance and power appears in the Angel episodes "Awakening" (where he does in fact remove Angel's soul, as the cloaked man in "Enemies" only pretends to do) and "Calvary".
For the first time, the name "Angelus" is used to refer specifically to the soulless, evil Angel.
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Earshot (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Earshot"
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Jonathan in the school clock tower .

Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 18
Directed by
Regis Kimble
Written by
Jane Espenson
Production code
3ABB18
Original air date
September 21, 1999
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Ethan Erickson as Percy West
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
Larry Bagby as Larry Blaisdell
Keram Malicki-Sánchez as Freddy Iverson
Justin Doran as Hogan Martin
Lauren Roman as Nancy Doyle
Wendy Worthington as Lunch Lady
Robert Arce as Mr. Beach
Molly Bryant as Ms. Murray
Rich Muller as Student
Jay Michael Ferguson as Another Student

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"Earshot" is the 18th episode of season three of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Production
3 Broadcast
4 Continuity 4.1 Arc significance
5 References
6 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
On patrol, Buffy runs into two demons that she fights, and succeeds in killing one of them. While the other escapes, the blood from the demon she killed gets absorbed into the back of her hand after she kills it. The next day at the library, Buffy finds that they're making very little progress with the Mayor and stopping the ascension. Willow asks Buffy if she's talked to Angel and then suggests that Buffy straight out ask him what happened with Faith. Percy checks in with Willow to reschedule their study session and then she talks to Buffy about the basketball game after school which everyone except Buffy is going to.
Buffy goes to Giles after she finds that her hand is itching where she was cut and that, because she came in contact with the blood of one of the demons, she may be infected with an aspect of the demon. Xander and Oz watch the cheerleaders at the pep rally and Xander reveals that he still has a thing for Cordy when he witnesses Wesley looking at Cordelia. Buffy is constantly worried as she waits to find out what aspect of the demon she'll be getting; Willow horrifies her, wondering if the demon was a male. She talks to Angel about it that night and he tells her he'd love her no matter what she looked like.
The next day, as she's walking through the halls, Buffy finds out that she can hear the thoughts of others. She talks to Giles about it, and he goes right to work researching it while Buffy decides to put her new ability to work. In class, she listens to the thoughts of her teacher and classmates and answers the questions asked. Buffy also hears the thoughts of Freddy Iverson, who writes editorials for the school newspaper and who has a seriously negative opinion about everything at Sunnydale.
Later that day, Buffy goes to the mansion to use her mind-reading abilities to check up on Angel and find out the truth about what happened with Faith. He figures out what she's trying to do, and informs her that his thoughts no more reflect into her mind than his image does on a mirror. He reveals to her that what happened with Faith meant nothing and that in 243 years, he's loved only Buffy.
At the library, Buffy tells her friends about her ability to read minds. Xander constantly thinks about sex, Cordelia says almost exactly what she thinks, Oz thinks extremely deep thoughts, Willow thinks about how she's left out of things, and Wesley thinks about Cordelia.
In the lunchroom, Buffy hears someone think, "This time tomorrow, I'll kill you all," and then the voices get to be too much and Buffy passes out. When she regains consciousness, she tells everyone to get organized and find out who the potential killer is. Buffy goes home to rest but before she leaves, she overhears Giles's thoughts that she'll go insane if the telepathy continues. He and Wesley found that it happened before, but the person is in total isolation because they can't stop the power. Buffy's mom is nervous around her and doesn't want to stay in the same room with Buffy for very long. Finally, Buffy reads her mind and finds out that she had sex with Giles, on the hood of a police car, twice. Willow and the others go around interviewing students and faculty that were in the Cafeteria to see if they're potential killers.
Giles and Wesley have found a possible solution to curing Buffy, but it requires the heart of the second demon. Angel hunts down the demon and the next morning brings the heart to the Summers' home in a glass mixed with other ingredients. He forces Buffy to drink it and then her body goes into convulsions. Willow and the rest of the Scooby Gang were able to locate all the students on the list except Freddy Iverson and they all go looking for him.
Back at home, Buffy wakes up and is no longer able to hear thoughts. The gang finally corners Freddy in his office and find out that he's not the potential killer. Buffy shows up just as they find a letter from Jonathan apologizing for his upcoming actions of death on Freddy's desk. The gang splits up to find Jonathan while he is up in the clock tower, assembling a rifle. Buffy spots him from below and puts her Slayer strengths to work as she flies up the stairs, onto the roof, and into the tower. Buffy talks to him and tells him that the reason why everyone ignores him is that they all have their own problems that actually matter more to them than his do. She takes the rifle from him, and then finds out that he was really going to commit suicide (much to her surprise and confusion).
Xander checks the kitchen and stumbles upon the overweight lunch lady putting rat poison into the food. She comes out and tries to kill Xander with a cleaver, but Buffy stops her. The lunch lady likened the students to "vermin" always eating and never stopping. Buffy decides that the lunch lady has lost her mind and knocks her unconscious. Giles and Buffy recap what happened as they walk around the school grounds. Giles asks her if she's up for some training, and Buffy says she is, and they can work out after school, if he isn't too busy having sex with [her] mother. This causes Giles to walk straight into a tree.
Production[edit]
In her commentary on the DVD, writer Jane Espenson reveals that when she found out that she was going to write this episode she knew that she wanted the student in the tower to be Jonathan. Even though Danny Strong had only had small, comedic parts on the series over the years, she had faith that he would be able to handle the dramatic scene.[1] Espenson also mentions in her DVD commentary that she included the exchange in which Buffy discovers that her mother slept with Giles in "Band Candy" because she was surprised that fans weren't sure that they had had sex and she wanted to eliminate any doubts.[1]
Giles walking right into a tree after Buffy told him she knew he slept with her mother was Anthony Head's idea - although he had never thought that Joss Whedon would actually let him do it.[2]
Broadcast[edit]
The Columbine High School massacre occurred one week before this episode was originally scheduled to air. Because this episode involved a scene with a student loading a rifle – apparently for mass murder, but in reality for suicide – the WB preempted it with a rerun of "Bad Girls". The episode was delayed until September 1999, where it aired two weeks prior to the season four premiere. The season finale was also preempted due to "school violence concerns."[3][4]
Continuity[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
Buffy learns that Giles and her mother have had sex — on top of a police car, twice — while under the influence of mystical chocolate bars in an earlier episode, "Band Candy".
Angel reveals to Buffy that vampires are immune to telepathy.
This is one of the first episodes to feature Jonathan outside a small comedy based role. He would later become a villain during Season Six.
Willow speaks to Jonathan about fantasies about power and respect, and that sometimes "the fantasy isn't enough". This foreshadows the episode "Superstar", in which Jonathan uses a spell to make himself a celebrity. It also recalls an earlier interrogation in the second season episode "Go Fish".
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Writer Jane Espenson's audio commentary for the episode on the season 3 DVD.
2.Jump up ^ TV.com Episode Guide, Season 3 Episode 18, "Earshot" Trivia & Quotes.
3.Jump up ^ "School Daze". Entertainment Weekly. May 25, 1999. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
4.Jump up ^ ""Buffy" Slayed by School Massacre". E! Online. April 23, 1999. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
External links[edit]
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Choices (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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"Choices"
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Faith receives a special knife from the Mayor as a gift

Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 19
Directed by
James A. Contner
Written by
David Fury
Production code
3ABB19
Original air date
May 4, 1999
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Harry Groener as Mayor Richard Wilkins
Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder
Keith Brunsmann as Vamp-Lackey
Jimmie F. Skaggs as Courier
Jason Reed as Vamp-Guard
Bonita Friedericy as Manager
Michael Schoenfeld as Security Guard #1
Seth Coltan as Security Guard #2
Brett Moses as Student

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"Choices" is the 19th episode of season 3 of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot synopsis
2 Writing 2.1 Arc significance
2.2 Continuity
2.3 Cultural references
3 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
A box - the Box of Gavrok - is due to arrive by courier at the airport. The Mayor offers Faith a knife in return for intercepting it. In between fighting vampires, Buffy complains that Angel never takes her anywhere new. New is exactly where Buffy's mom, Joyce, wants her to go: Northwestern, or one of the other good schools she's been accepted to that aren't in Sunnydale. Buffy, who has also been accepted at the University of California, Sunnydale is reluctant to make any plans.
At school, Principal Snyder's obsessive drug search includes a student's lunch. Buffy, who reviews the reasons she can't leave Sunnydale, is not the only one with college news: Willow is awash in acceptances from Harvard, Yale, MIT, and even Oxford. Xander is less fortunate, but has plans to travel like Jack Kerouac to find his future. Cordelia offers insults, but no information about her own situation.
Buffy worries Wesley and Giles by telling them that she wants out of Sunnydale. She offers a deal: if she takes the offensive against the Mayor, defeats him, and stop the ascension, they could afford to be Slayerless for long enough for her to go away to college.
That night, Faith does her job: she arrives at the airport, kills the courier, and separate him from the box by taking off his hand. Watching from the bushes, Buffy sees Faith arrive in a limo to deliver the box to the Mayor. After the coast is clear, Buffy forces the driver to disclose information about the box before staking him with Kendra's Mr. Pointy.
The gang plan the attack on City Hall to steal the Box of Gavrok: it is being kept in a top-floor conference room. First, Willow will remove the magic protecting the box so Buffy and Angel can take it. Then, Xander and Oz will prepare the ritual Willow will use to destroy the box. Xander is sent in search of ingredients; en route he spots Cordelia in a clothing store, where her mystery deepens: she has in fact been accepted to a batch of good schools, including Columbia.
That night, they execute the plan. Wesley and Giles drop off Buffy, Willow and Angel at City Hall. While Xander and Oz follow Willow's directions to create the necessary potion, Willow performs the spell at City Hall so Angel can lower Buffy through the skylight to grab the box. Everything goes fine until she picks up the box, when two things happen: the guy ropes stick and an alarm goes off. As two vampires enter menacingly, Angel drops to Buffy's rescue. They escape, box in hand. The Mayor's anger and the gang's relief reverse when all discover that Faith has captured Willow.
A library discussion ensues: is Willow's life worth those of the many thousands who would be saved if the box is destroyed? Oz casts the final vote by smashing the pot containing the potion needed for the ritual. Buffy tells Giles to set up a meeting to exchange Willow for the Box of Gavrok.
At City Hall, Willow escapes from the room she's imprisoned in and examines the Mayor's office. She is reading the Books of Ascension when Faith finds her. Giles's call comes in time to stop Faith from killing her.
The meeting is in the school cafeteria. The Mayor, chatty as ever, spends a little time telling Buffy and Angel that they have no future together. They make the trade, but are disrupted by Principal Snyder and his security guards, still bent on drug-busting. One of the guards opens the box, which gives a clue to its contents: a large beetle-like creature jumps out and kills him. Another beetle breaks free and the two attack the Mayor and Buffy. Both beetles are killed – one by a throw of Faith's new knife, which she is forced to leave behind.
Back at the library, Willow presents Giles with a few important pages she tore from the Books of Ascension she hopes will have helpful clues. In the meantime, Wesley counts the cost of her rescue: the gang are now back exactly where they started, with no way to stop the Ascension.
At school the next day, Buffy and Willow talk again about their future. Buffy now knows she can't leave; Willow now knows she doesn't want to leave because fighting evil and studying Wicca are what she wants to do. Both will attend UC Sunnydale. Meanwhile, we learn a piece of Cordelia's secret: she's working at that clothing shop. On patrol late that night Buffy and Angel try to convince each other that the Mayor was wrong. After all, he's evil.
Writing[edit]
Arc significance[edit]
Believing Cordelia is in a shop to buy clothes, Xander later learns ("The Prom") that she actually works there because she needs the income.
While working out Willow's instructions for the potion, Xander and Oz observe the cute stick figure drawings Willow has made of them, one showing Oz with a little guitar. He fondly says "There's nobody like my Will'" and Xander agrees.This moment of mutual affection for Willow signifies that they have firmly both moved on from the previous tension following Willow and Xander's infidelity.
When Faith has to leave her knife behind after pinning one of the scuttling scarabs to the wall, she alters her own path ("Graduation Day, Part One") and seals the Mayor's doom ("Graduation Day, Part Two).
Continuity[edit]
The Mayor is the second character (the first being Spike) who vocalizes the fact that Buffy and Angel's future together as a couple is ultimately doomed. He has experienced the heartache of being an immortal being and watching his mortal wife grow old and resenting him for his eternal youth, which is something that Buffy and Angel will need to confront if they decide to spend their lives together. He also alludes to the fact that they can never have a sexual relationship because they risk Angel losing his soul, something which they have clearly been struggling with throughout the season since Angel's return. Finally, the Mayor points out that Angel is being selfish by allowing their closeness to continue, as he can never truly offer Buffy the fulfilling life that she deserves. These harsh truths have clearly crossed the minds of both Buffy and Angel, however up until now they have been living in denial of these realities. Although the Mayor's words resonate hard with Angel, Buffy remains in denial.The fate of their relationship is determined later in the season.
We learn that Buffy has an aunt in Illinois, Arlene. She appears to be Joyce's sister since Joyce phones her to talk about Buffy's acceptance to Northwestern University.
Buffy mentions Mr Pointy, the stake Kendra used to kill vampires, she gave it to Buffy in "Becoming" to kill Angel in his evil form.
Cultural references[edit]
On the Road: Xander is reading Jack Kerouac, which inspires to him to go on a road trip after graduation. However, as Buffy learns in Season Four, he only makes it as far as Oxnard when his car breaks down.
The Godfather: When the Mayor asks Faith, "What happened to the courier? I was supposed to pay him," she replies, "I made him an offer he couldn't survive."
External links[edit]
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"The Prom"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Buffy and Angel dance at the prom

Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 20
Directed by
David Solomon
Written by
Marti Noxon
Featured music
"Wild Horses" by The Sundays
Production code
3ABB20
Original air date
May 11, 1999
Guest actors

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Brad Kane as Tucker Wells
Emma Caulfield as Anya
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
Andrea Baker as Sales Girl
Bonita Friedericy as Mrs. Finkle
Mike Kimmel as Harv
Tove Kingsbury as Tux Boy
Michael Zlabinger as Student At Mic
Damien Eckhardt as Jack Mayhew
Monica Serene Garnich as Pretty Girl
Joe Howard as Priest
Stephanie Denise Griffin as Tux Girl

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"The Prom" is episode 20 in season three of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


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2 Production
3 References
4 External links

Plot synopsis[edit]
Buffy wakes up in Angel's bed at the mansion after the two fell asleep after patrol. Buffy talks a bit about bringing some of her stuff over so every once in a while she could spend the night and she mentions going to the prom. When she opens the curtains to check for the sun, she accidentally lets in a strong beam. It hits Angel, but he manages to move before it really burns him.
At school, Anya, still a mere human being, asks Xander to the Prom. Both are dateless and desperate, so he says yes. Later, Buffy, Willow, Oz, and Xander discuss prom plans, and dresses. Joyce visits Angel at the mansion and tells him she's worried about the effect he's having on her daughter. She tells him that he can't get in the way of her future and if Buffy can't see that, he'll have to do something about it.
Buffy and Willow are talking prom dresses while Giles is continuing research for the Ascension. Although the pages Willow tore out the Books of Ascension have helped, they don't know for sure what kind of demon the Mayor will transform into. Giles and Wesley will both be chaperoning the prom which Buffy protests is going to be the one and possibly last night of fun they'll have in Sunnydale. Meanwhile, in a small house, someone plays a video for a caged beast that makes it go wild.
Buffy and Angel are in a church getting married. As they exit the church, Angel is fearful of the sun, but it is Buffy that burns up and dies – not him – when they come in contact with the sun's light, Angel wakes up.
While patrolling, Buffy and Angel have an argument. Angel's still very disturbed by his dream, the visit from Joyce, and what the Mayor said to him and Buffy during their last encounter and tells Buffy they need to talk. He tells her that it's unfair for her to be in a relationship with him because of all the things he can't give her. In order to make her realize how serious he is, he breaks up with her and tells her he doesn't want her to be with him. He plans to leave Sunnydale after the ascension.
Buffy goes to Willow for comfort and she realizes that Angel was right; the two of them really can't be together. But, after such a long and dedicated relationship falls apart so quickly, Buffy just feels horrible and cries. At "April Fools," a store where Cordelia works, Xander spots her through the window and goes in to tease her for what he perceives as her spending a long time trying to pick a dress, however he is stopped short when an assistant chides Cordelia for speaking to Xander, who isn't a customer. She reveals that, because of her dad's "little mistake on his taxes....for the last twelve years", she's now working there to save up for a prom dress, because her family lost all of their money and now she has nowhere to live, and she can't afford to go to any of the colleges that accepted her. Xander is clearly shocked by this, and can't come up with any words in response, while Cordelia says that he can go back to his friends and laugh at her getting her comeuppance. Their argument is cut short as one of the beasts that broke free breaks through the window and kills a boy dressed in a tux.
At the library, they study the video of the attack, and spot a guy outside, who turns out to be Tucker Wells, who used to have a chemistry class with Oz. Tucker has plans to ruin prom night by sending a hell-hound trained to attack those in formal wear after the students. Buffy vows not to let the hellhounds ruin the big night and issues orders for everyone to split up and search for clues. She ends up finding an address at the butcher where Tucker ordered cow brains to feed the demons. She runs into Angel, and the two have a post-break-up argument. As Cordelia leaves work, she finds that her prom dress has been paid for.
Buffy returns from her searching and orders everyone else to attend the prom while she takes care of the hounds. She tells Giles that Angel is leaving town. She finds Tucker in his basement and confronts him, asking him why he wants to ruin the happiest night of a senior's life, to which Tucker simply tells her he has his reasons (although the audience sees that it's just because the girl he asked to the prom turned him down). Buffy ties Tucker up before he can release the hounds. But she also finds out that there are four hounds, and three are already on their way to the school. After killing all of them, Buffy changes into her prom dress and shows up for the dance. Everyone looks amazing dressed up in their tuxes and formal dresses. Cordelia shows up and clings to Wesley (after thanking Xander for paying for her dress, restoring their friendship) while Anya tells Xander of her past cursing unfaithful men, and Willow and Oz just enjoy the evening.
When Class awards are given out, Xander is disappointed when he is snubbed for Class Clown. Then Jonathan approaches the microphone and asks if Buffy is in the room. Buffy, who was getting punch, slowly turns around. Jonathan says that the next award is a new category, and gives a speech saying that while they may not all be friends, the student body has noticed whenever something creepy or horrible happened, Buffy was always there to stop it and that most of them have been saved by her at least once. As a result, the Graduating Class of 1999 has the lowest mortality rate in Sunnydale High history and she is to be given an ornately decorated parasol bearing a small engraving saying 'Buffy Summers - Class Protector'. A deeply touched Buffy approaches the stage to the cheering of her classmates and friends and she happily accepts the award from Jonathan. Afterwards, the students continue to dance when Angel surprises her by showing up in a tux. While Angel assures her that his presence doesn't change their status, Buffy is just glad to be held in his arms as they dance.
Production[edit]
In the scene where Angel breaks up with Buffy, Sarah Michelle Gellar admits that she "could not stop crying," and the set was closed for 25 minutes to allow her to recover. Sarah has been known to say that she believes Buffy and Angel are soul mates.[1]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Interview with Sarah Michelle Gellar
External links[edit]
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"Graduation Day"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
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Buffy allows part of her blood to be drained to save Angel's life, in the final appearance of David Boreanaz as a series regular.

Episode no.
Season 3
 Episode 21 & 22
Directed by
Joss Whedon
Written by
Joss Whedon
Production code
3ABB21 & 3ABB22
Original air date
May 18, 1999 (Part 1)
 July 13, 1999 (Part 2)
Guest actors

Larry Bagby as Larry Blaisdell
Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane
Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Emma Caulfield as Anya
Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
Harry Groener as Mayor Richard Wilkins
Mercedes McNab as Harmony Kendall
Armin Shimerman as Principal Snyder
Ethan Erickson as Percy West
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
James Lurie as Mr. Miller
Hal Robinson as Lester Worth
Adrian Neil as Vamp-Lackey #1
John Rosenfeld as Vamp-Lackey #2
Paulo Andrés as Dr. Powell
Susan Chuang as Nurse
Tom Bellin as Dr. Gold
Samuel Bliss Cooper as Vamp-Lackey #3

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"Graduation Day" is the season finale of the WB Television Network's third season of the drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, consisting of the twenty-first and twenty-second episodes. They are also the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth episodes of the show overall. The two constituent episodes were split into two broadcasts; "Part 1" first aired on May 18, 1999 and "Part 2" first aired on July 13, 1999. The second part was to originally be aired on May 25, 1999 however was postponed due to the episode's content and the occurrence of the Columbine High School shootings one month prior. The episodes were written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon.
The episodes are the last to feature Angel (David Boreanaz) as a series regular due to the character starring in the spin-off series Angel. Fellow series regular Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter)—who had been with the show since its first episode—also left the series to star alongside Boreanaz.
The first part, which featured a fight between Buffy and Faith, was included in BuddyTV's 10 favorite catfights on television.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot 1.1 Part 1
1.2 Part 2
2 Controversy
3 Trivia 3.1 Part one
3.2 Part two
4 Continuity 4.1 Arc significance
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
Part 1[edit]
The episode opens with the gang preparing for their graduation: Cordelia and Xander discuss the color of their gowns, and Willow speaks to Buffy about all she'll miss about high school. Buffy is considering skipping graduation to fight Mayor Wilkins, until Xander joins them and informs the two that he's to be the commencement speaker at graduation. Faith visits college professor Lester Worth on behalf of the Mayor, and kills him. She reports the kill to the Mayor, who has Faith change into a dress and tells her the ascension is her day as well as his. In class, Anya speaks to Xander and, when he mentions the ascension, her expression becomes grave.
In the library, Buffy shows Giles and Wesley the newspaper which details the murder of Worth. Buffy suspects Faith to be the culprit and the three agree the professor must have known something the Mayor wanted kept secret. Xander and Anya arrive, Anya having experienced a previous ascension. She tells them about a sorcerer who became the pure-demon Lohesh - unlike human-demon hybrids like vampires, pure-demons are much stronger and much larger. The Mayor waltzes in to the library and smugly comments that he'll eat Buffy come graduation day. Upon hearing this Giles, in a fit of rage, stabs him with a sword; but the Mayor is unharmed, and merely scolds Giles for his impetuous violence – a bad example in the presence of children. He leaves with the cheery promise that some of their deaths will be quick.
At home, Buffy packs a suitcase for Joyce and convinces her to leave town for safety. Willow vents her worries to Oz, and chides him for his detachment; panic would be a more normal human response. Oz interrupts her with a passionate kiss, and when Willow asks what he's doing, he replies that he is "panicking". The two finally consummate their relationship.
Buffy and Angel discuss Worth's work, which Buffy doesn't understand. The two discuss the confusing nature of their relationship, when Angel is struck in the back by an arrow fired by Faith, which misses his heart. At the library, the arrow is removed, and Giles and Wesley go over Mr. Worth's files, which indicate that Worth found a gigantic carcass underneath the rubble of a volcanic eruption, which he believed may have been a new type of dinosaur. The group assumes this must be some sort of demon, when Angel falls to the ground - the arrow has been poisoned with a toxin fatal to vampires. Faith reports her attack to the Mayor, and amuses him with a few stories from her childhood before he continues preparations for the ascension. Wesley tells Buffy the Watcher's Council refuses to help Angel because he is a vampire, but Willow's research reveals the poison has a cure - the blood of a Slayer.
Buffy arrives at Faith's apartment, and the two battle, eventually taking the fight to the roof. Meanwhile, Giles and Xander find that the Mayor will transform into the demon Olvikan, and find an unseen picture of him in a book - the illustration is four pages long. The Mayor is also alerted to the trouble at Faith's place. On the edge of the roof, Buffy stabs Faith with the knife Faith had received from the Mayor. Faith congratulates Buffy for killing her, then leaps off the roof onto a truck on the street below. The fall knocks her out, and Buffy watches as the truck carries her away.
Part 2[edit]



 Buffy and Angel, looking at each other in a distance, with a fire hose between them, visually signifies that they are now apart.
Buffy leaves Faith's apartment after their battle, and the Mayor appears inside the broken window overlooking the roof and orders his minions to find Buffy and Faith. Xander and Giles are in the library, and Cordelia enters and demands to know what happened to Wesley, who is upset and leaving the country. Giles informs Cordy that Buffy has quit the council and no longer requires a watcher. Willow and Oz are watching over Angel, when Buffy arrives and sends them away. Buffy tells Angel that the only cure is the blood of a Slayer and that since he can't use Faith, he'll have to drink from her. Angel refuses and Buffy tries to persuade him that if he doesn't drink her blood, he'll die. Angel accepts this and stumbles away from Buffy, but she stops him and tells him she won't let him die. Angel begs her to not make him drink, but she punches him in the face, trying to turn him. When it doesn't work, she punches him two more times, the second turning him. She pulls Angel's head down to her neck and after a moment's hesitation, Angel bites her and starts drinking. He ends up taking too much and Buffy passes out just as Angel is able to stop himself from killing her. He rushes her to the hospital, where she is saved. In a nearby room, another doctor is informing the Mayor that Faith is in a coma. The Mayor overhears nurses talking about Buffy, and attempts to suffocate her before he is stopped by Angel and leaves.
In a dream, Buffy and Faith have an exchange in Faith's apartment. The two trade cryptic comments, and Faith assures Buffy she'll heal. She also tells Buffy that "human weakness never goes away, even his". Faith reaches up to stroke Buffy's face, thus awakening her. When she wakes she approaches her friends, ready to go to war with the Mayor. In the library, Buffy finishes detailing a plan (which the audience does not hear), and the gang agree the plan is crazy, but is their only option. Giles cautions that the plan is entirely contingent upon Buffy's ability to control the Mayor. Buffy explains what Faith had told her about human weakness, and Angel remembers that the Mayor was seriously grieving over Faith. Wesley arrives and says he is there to help of his own volition, not on behalf of the council. The Mayor and Buffy detail their respective plans to their allies, and Buffy's friends recruit other students to help. Wesley tells Cordelia that he will be returning to England following the ascension, saying he has no reason to stay now that Buffy has quit the council. The two kiss, but find it awkward and simply exchange goodbyes.
Buffy and Angel talk over weapons, and Angel tells Buffy he won't be saying good-bye after the battle. A grief-stricken Buffy unwraps the knife she used to stab Faith, still stained with her blood. The graduation ceremony begins and Principal Snyder welcomes the students before the Mayor takes the podium. The Mayor tells the students that it is the 100th anniversary of the founding of Sunnydale, and during the rest of his speech suddenly convulses. An eclipse begins, and the Mayor decides to skip the ending to his speech, and transforms into Olvikan, a giant snake-like demon. Everyone but the students scramble to flee, when Buffy yells "NOW!", and the entire student body removes their robes to reveal weapons and crosses, ready to fight - belying (three seasons of...) Sunnydale residents' typical state of denial when it comes to the paranormal. Xander and Angel lead the students into battle against the Mayor's vampires, and in the chaos the Mayor devours Snyder as he rages at him.
Buffy catches the Mayor's attention with Faith's knife, describing in graphic detail how she stabbed her. The Mayor chases Buffy through the school to the library, where all of the books have been removed and the room filled with explosives. Buffy dives out a window as the Mayor exclaims "well gosh!" Giles detonates the explosives, blowing up the school and killing the Mayor. EMTs and firefighters are now at the school helping the wounded, and Buffy is looking for Angel. Giles presents her with her diploma, rescued from the debris. He leaves and Buffy then sees Angel. The two of them share a final, longing look at each other before Angel turns and walks off while Buffy watches him go. The gang, minus Giles, gathers and Willow asks if she is okay, and Buffy says she is. Oz tells them all to take a moment to deal with what happened, that they all survived. Buffy agrees that it was a great battle, but Oz corrects her by saying they survived high school. The scene fades on a charred yearbook for Sunnydale Class of 1999.
Controversy[edit]
During the time of its airing, the episode caused a great deal of controversy in the media. The Columbine High School massacre, only four weeks before the airing of Part One, was widely blamed on violence in entertainment. The WB Television Network had already pulled the plug on an earlier episode, "Earshot"[2] (which itself was not aired until September), and feared that several scenes in "Graduation Day, Part Two" would provoke high school students to do the same thing, especially those depicting the entire graduating class handling weapons against the Mayor.
On May 25, 1999, only two hours before "Graduation Day, Part Two" was due to air, The WB suddenly decided to replace it with a re-run from earlier in the season.[3] This sudden move received huge attention in the media and thousands of letters were sent to the network demanding that the season finale be shown. Sarah Michelle Gellar publicly spoke out against the decision, Seth Green agreed that the episode should have been broadcast in its original slot.[4] The WB did not air the episode until July 13, 1999, almost two months after it was originally scheduled; since nearly all US schools end their term in May or June, it was then felt safe. The episode attracted 6.5 million viewers, atypically high for the WB during summer, and comparable to what the other episodes of the season had received.
As the episode was not delayed in Canada, many bootleg digital downloads were available.[5] Joss Whedon, the creator of the show, stated, "Bootleg the puppy."[6]
Buffy novel The Evil That Men Do was also delayed due to the Columbine incident; it was published one year later than planned.
Trivia[edit]
Part one[edit]
James Lurie played the teacher Mr. Miller in "I Only Have Eyes For You" and "Anne" as well as playing hangman with his class ("They always go for the 'E'").
When this episode originally aired, the first ever trailer for Angel was shown. It lasted only four seconds with Boreanaz turning towards the camera, and the words "Angel. This Fall" appeared.
On seeing an illustration of the Mayor's eventual demon form, Xander quotes the famous line from Jaws: "We're going to need a bigger boat".
Faith's line "Look at you, trying on big sister's clothes" is a reference to the Elvis Costello song "Big Sister's Clothes" on the album Trust. The episode in which Faith awakens from the coma she enters in this episode, "This Year's Girl" is also a reference to an Elvis Costello song. At a June 2 concert in L.A., Elvis Costello riffed about God searching in vain for the lost Buffy in reference to Part 2 of the episode, and sarcastically praised The WB for "keeping teens safe from unholy demons."[6]
Part two[edit]
The yearbook seen in this episode, the Sunnydale High Yearbook, was released as a tie-in product after this episode aired, though not the exact format seen on-screen.
Cordelia kills a vampire for the first time, something Charisma Carpenter had requested of the series writers several times before.[7]
Douglas Petrie wrote a Buffy comic that takes place immediately after this episode; Double Cross concerns events after Angel left Buffy.
In the closing credits, the Mutant Enemy zombie wears a black graduation cap.
The cat in Buffy's dream briefly turns into Faith, in her comatose state, and then back.
David Boreanaz and Charisma Carpenter, series regulars until now, thereafter move to a spinoff series, Angel. Boreanaz afterward appears several times as a guest on Buffy.
According to Marti Noxon in a DVD commentary, the explosion scene was filmed at 5 a.m. in Torrance, California, where the outdoor scenes had been filmed for the previous three years.
In the dream when Faith refers to Little Miss Muffet, she is actually referring to Dawn, Buffy's sister who arrives in season 5. In the first episode where Dawn is introduced a man approaches her and tells her she's "all just curds and whey".
Continuity[edit]
This is the first time since "Ted" that Buffy has intentionally attempted to harm another human, and the first instance where it could be considered consciously premeditated. Despite Faith's obviously evil actions, Buffy's reaction after mortally wounding Faith is reminiscent of the reaction she had when she thought she'd killed Ted.
When Anya returns to the school to ask Xander to run away with her she tells him that her car is just outside and they can take turns driving, however in season five during the episode "Triangle" it is revealed that Anya is unclear about driving. She still demonstrates her ability to drive in the episode and it may be perceived that she is still new to the concept in this episode.
Willow mentions to Buffy in the Season 1 episode "The Harvest" that one way they could get kicked out of school is to "blow up the school."
Cordelia and Wesley discover through two bad kisses that their dalliance will lead nowhere.
Amy is still a rat, despite Willow's attempt to cure her.
Arc significance[edit]
Buffy quits the Watchers' Council; she will not rejoin until she needs information on Glory in Season Five. She explains the decision as her 'graduation.'
Willow has sex with Oz.
Anya helps the Scoobies for the first time, giving them information about a demon ascension. She also decides to explore a relationship with Xander, which will continue to the end of the series.
Sunnydale High School, a focus of paranormal activity, is destroyed. It will be seen again as a charred wreck in season four and rebuilt in season seven.
Xander again shows his military prowess, acquired in episode "Halloween", engineering with Giles the mining of Sunnydale High and commanding the students in the final battle against the mayor.
Cordelia slays her first and only vampire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but slays others in the spin-off Angel.
In the beginning of the battle between the crowd of pupils and the vampires, there's a brief scene of Harmony Kendall running down and getting bitten by a vampire. She returns in "The Harsh Light of Day" as an inept vampire.
Angel, Cordelia, and Wesley leave the series to become major characters in the spin-off Angel. Though neither Cordelia nor Wesley appear in any future episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel appears in eight episodes of seasons 4, 5 and 7, either in flashbacks or in person.
Larry Blaisdell dies in this episode and does not appear again. His death was implied but is not positively confirmed on screen until "Smashed" (season 6).
The Mayor and Principal Snyder both die in this episode although both will appear again in dreams, hallucinations, etc.
This episode marks the last physical appearance of Cordelia Chase in the series, as she never returns to Sunnydale.
Faith mentions "Little Miss Muffet counting down from 730". This plays a major part in the season 5 arc with the introduction of Dawn Summers.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Kubicek, John. "Girl-on-Girl Action: TV’s Top 10 Catfights". BuddyTV. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Millman, Joyce (June 1, 1999). "Finale thoughts". Salon.com. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
3.Jump up ^ Taylor, Charles (May 26, 1999). "The WB's Big Daddy condescension". Salon.com. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
4.Jump up ^ Bonin, Liane (May 25, 1999). "School Daze". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
5.Jump up ^ Wen, Howard (May 28, 1999). "'Buffy' fans distribute postponed finale online". Salon.com. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
6.^ Jump up to: a b "Network Outage". Entertainment Weekly (490). June 18, 1999. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
7.Jump up ^ "'Angel's' Cordelia Speaks the Truth". Zap2it.com. 2002-04-17. Retrieved 2008-10-04.
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Graduation Day, Part 1
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Graduation Day, Part 2
"Graduation Day (Part 1)" at the Internet Movie Database
"Graduation Day (Part 1)" at TV.com
  "Graduation Day (Part 2)" at the Internet Movie Database
"Graduation Day (Part 2)" at TV.com



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